Hi all,
The usual apologies if this has been answered; I didn't see the answer anywhere on the site or googleing the archives...
Since CentOS is a RHEL rebuild (and this is brilliant!), does that imply that CentOS will continue to provide security patches and bug fixes so long as Red Hat continues to release them for a given version of RHEL? That's to say that Red Hat commits to 5 years of updates for any given version of RHEL. Will CentOS benefit for those same 5 years?
I ask because Scientific Linux commits (or, plans) to support 3 years after a release.
Thanks in advance!
-Fred
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 23:24 -0500, Fred Whipple wrote:
Hi all,
The usual apologies if this has been answered; I didn't see the answer anywhere on the site or googleing the archives...
Since CentOS is a RHEL rebuild (and this is brilliant!), does that imply that CentOS will continue to provide security patches and bug fixes so long as Red Hat continues to release them for a given version of RHEL? That's to say that Red Hat commits to 5 years of updates for any given version of RHEL. Will CentOS benefit for those same 5 years?
I ask because Scientific Linux commits (or, plans) to support 3 years after a release.
It is the CentOS plan to support our versions as long as the version of RHEL they track is supported ... we (and Lineox) are the only RHEL clones to have a 2.x, a 3.x, and a 4.x(beta) version right now.
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 23:24 -0500, Fred Whipple wrote: any given version of RHEL. Will CentOS benefit for those same 5 years?
I ask because Scientific Linux commits (or, plans) to support 3 years after a release.
It is the CentOS plan to support our versions as long as the version of RHEL they track is supported ... we (and Lineox) are the only RHEL clones to have a 2.x, a 3.x, and a 4.x(beta) version right now.
It also occurs to me that, worst case, you could just get the SRPMS from RHEL and rebuild the binary RPMS yourself, for any RHEL derivative distribution, although sometimes there are hiccups with rebuilding.
Linux improves so fast, personally I could not stand it to be using the OS from 5 years ago. If it comes to that to run some legacy application, I'll set up a Virtual Machine to run just that application.
--jonathan
Linux improves so fast, personally I could not stand it to be using the OS from 5 years ago. If it comes to that to run some legacy application, I'll set up a Virtual Machine to run just that application.
I agree, and we tend not to run systems longer than 2 years without an upgrade. However there's nothing cozier than a nice, warm, security blanket! ;-) It's the *forced* upgrades that bother me. We've had the Red Hat rug pulled out from under us and this is causing me some pain...
-Fred
Also keep in mind RHEL3 has about 3 years left of its life before its EOL'd, perhaps thats what the other project means. As soon as RHEL stop providing support, CentOS would EOL as well.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:10:16 -0500, Fred Whipple fwhipple@gmail.com wrote:
Linux improves so fast, personally I could not stand it to be using the OS from 5 years ago. If it comes to that to run some legacy application, I'll set up a Virtual Machine to run just that application.
I agree, and we tend not to run systems longer than 2 years without an upgrade. However there's nothing cozier than a nice, warm, security blanket! ;-) It's the *forced* upgrades that bother me. We've had the Red Hat rug pulled out from under us and this is causing me some pain...
-Fred
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Also keep in mind RHEL3 has about 3 years left of its life before its EOL'd, perhaps thats what the other project means. As soon as RHEL stop providing support, CentOS would EOL as well.
Three years ? No, as RHEL3 was released October 2003, RHEL will be supported for more than 5 years from now. RHEL is supported 7 years after it's release (used to be 5 years though)
With regards,
Taco
Fred Whipple wrote:
Linux improves so fast, personally I could not stand it to be using the OS from 5 years ago. If it comes to that to run some legacy application, I'll set up a Virtual Machine to run just that application.
I agree, and we tend not to run systems longer than 2 years without an upgrade. However there's nothing cozier than a nice, warm, security blanket! ;-) It's the *forced* upgrades that bother me. We've had the Red Hat rug pulled out from under us and this is causing me some pain...
I still have machines running RedHat 6.0. It relies on a custom kernel patch for a special ISA card. Only having one card it makes it hard to test an upgrade so firewalls up and it is still running.
We are using CentOS-2 (no surprise) on most of our servers. This allowed us to upgrade from RedHat 7.2 without having to retest all out applications. I have no plans to upgrade anything in the next 12 months. We still have 4 years of security patches promised so I am not rushing to upgrade. Perhaps once CentOS-4 is out I will look at that for any new servers.
John.
-Fred
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