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Can someone tell me what the exact CentOS policy for end-of-life is for 5.0?
Let me explain: I have been using RHEL for a number of years and had to switch to Fedora for installing some packages only supported under F6.
As I find Fedora's policy for release life duration too stringent (and I do no longer need the packages that made me choose F6), I'm considering switching over to CentOS5.0 I know, 5.0 is not the most recent release, but that one is supported by Parallel Pro (new package I need)
Thanks
"Patrick Derwael" patrick@derwael.be writes:
Can someone tell me what the exact CentOS policy for end-of-life is for 5.0?
As far as I know, 5.0 itself is pretty much EOL; updates are not being released for it. 5, on the other hand, won't be EOL for quite a few years.
Let me explain: I have been using RHEL for a number of years and had to switch to Fedora for installing some packages only supported under F6.
As I find Fedora's policy for release life duration too stringent (and I do no longer need the packages that made me choose F6), I'm considering switching over to CentOS5.0 I know, 5.0 is not the most recent release, but that one is supported by Parallel Pro (new package I need)
I imagine that Parallel Pro will probably work on 5.2. 5.2 isn't really a new release of CentOS, but is rather an update set to CentOS 5. Think of it as CentOS 5 Service Pack 2, if you will. The vast majority of it (some desktop apps, such as Firefox, excluded) should be 100% binary-compatible with 5.0.
Running 5.0 is not recommended, as you will not have security support. If keeping as close to 5.0 as possible is desired, you could probably install 5.0 and then only install the security-related updates.
- Michael
"Patrick Derwael" patrick@derwael.be writes:
Can someone tell me what the exact CentOS policy for end-of-life is for 5.0?
As far as I know, 5.0 itself is pretty much EOL; updates are not being released for it. 5, on the other hand, won't be EOL for quite a few years.
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I imagine that Parallel Pro will probably work on 5.2. 5.2 isn't really a new release of CentOS, but is rather an update set to CentOS 5. Think of it as CentOS 5 Service Pack 2, if you will. The vast majority of it (some desktop apps, such as Firefox, excluded) should be 100% binary-compatible with 5.0.
Running 5.0 is not recommended, as you will not have security support. If keeping as close to 5.0 as possible is desired, you could probably install 5.0 and then only install the security-related updates.
- Michael
[Patrick Derwael]
Michael, The point is that Parallel supports exactly CentOS 4.4 and 5.0, Fedora 4 and 6 and RHEL 4ES and 5ES. I'm a bit stuck here!
As far as my other systems are concerned, (pen testing) I will reinstall them under Centos 5.2 in the coming weeks
Thanks!
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Patrick Derwael wrote:
*/[Patrick Derwael] /* The point is that Parallel supports exactly CentOS 4.4 and 5.0, Fedora 4 and 6 and RHEL 4ES and 5ES.
This bit is interesting. I dont know anything about 'Parallel' so keep that in mind.
Most vendors when they say only 1 release and only that specific release is supported do so because they have kernel modules that are built against the kernel shipped in that version. Now when you install CentOS-5.0 you get the kernel that was shipped with 5.0 - when you do the yum updates, that kernel is not removed. The default policy for yum on CentOS is to not 'upgrade' the kernel, but to also install a newer one, if its available. Primary focus of this policy is to address the specific issue you are running up against, and also in cases where people have specific hardware support drivers compiled into the kernel or when they are running custom builds of the kernel.
Now, I dont know what parallel is or what you are doing there, but I dont belive the Vendor that only one update level is supported. Perhaps they have a dependancy on a specific package ( like the kernel ) - those are easy to lock into a version with things like yum-versionlock.
As far as my other systems are concerned, (pen testing) I will reinstall them under Centos 5.2 in the coming weeks
you dont need to reinstall to get from 5.0 to 5.2, if you do a yum update, that will bring in all the updated packages. ( remember 5.0+updates == 5.2 ).
on 8-21-2008 9:24 AM Patrick Derwael spake the following:
"Patrick Derwael" patrick@derwael.be writes:
Can someone tell me what the exact CentOS policy for end-of-life is for 5.0?
As far as I know, 5.0 itself is pretty much EOL; updates are not being released for it. 5, on the other hand, won't be EOL for quite a few years.
<snip>
I imagine that Parallel Pro will probably work on 5.2. 5.2 isn't really a new release of CentOS, but is rather an update set to CentOS 5. Think of it as CentOS 5 Service Pack 2, if you will. The vast majority of it (some desktop apps, such as Firefox, excluded) should be 100% binary-compatible with 5.0.
Running 5.0 is not recommended, as you will not have security support. If keeping as close to 5.0 as possible is desired, you could probably install 5.0 and then only install the security-related updates.
- Michael
*/[Patrick Derwael] /*
Michael, The point is that Parallel supports exactly CentOS 4.4 and 5.0, Fedora 4 and 6 and RHEL 4ES and 5ES. I’m a bit stuck here!
As far as my other systems are concerned, (pen testing) I will reinstall them under Centos 5.2 in the coming weeks
Thanks!
Do you have a link to this application's website? Maybe we could determine why it might be stuck to a limited set of OS releases. If a software can't keep up with a limited subset of OS updates, maybe they are concerned more with costs then security.
Do you have a link to this application's website? Maybe we could determine why it might be stuck to a limited set of OS releases. If a software can't keep up with a limited subset of OS updates, maybe they are concerned more with costs then security.
The OP is happily incorrect on the 5.0 issue. CentOS 5.x is fully supported under Paralells Pro X for Linux from 10.1.0 and up (current release is 10.3.1). I know this because I run it on CentOS 5.2
HTH, -Ray
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