On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 06:36 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:

Oliver Schulze L. wrote:

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Hi, I have a server that have an aplication that runs on RH7.3 and in Centos 2.1

Currently, it runs RH7.3 with yum updates from fedora-legacy

My question is, should I update to Centos 2.1 or stay in RH7.3? What are my advantages of migrating to Centos 2.1?

My concern are more about security updates in the next 2 years.

It depends ... according the upstream provider, there will be official 2.1 security updates until May 31, 2009

Have you tried running your application on CentOS 3.6 or 4.2? If it's a binary-only application, it should still continue to work if you install the compatibility libraries. That's likely a much safer choice if you want timely updates for the next 2 years and you get the benefit of more current tools/kernels/etc. I wasn't even aware that 7.3 was still officially supported....

Fedora Legacy is not official support ... I have no idea when they will stop support for 7.3 (They removed support for 7.1, 7.2 and 8 already ... but they did standardize on 7.3 and 9 {which is understandable})

I would think that CentOS 2.1 would be the more secure way to go ... but the 7.3 tree for Fedora Legacy seems to be fairly active too. If I was doing the deciding, I would use CentOS-2, as there is a sure stream of updates to May 2009.

Hi Chris, Its an old app and don't have the resources to test the compability in CentOS 3 o 4 Its a litle complex the app, thats why.

Thanks Oliver

Chris Mauritz wrote:

Have you tried running your application on CentOS 3.6 or 4.2? If it's a binary-only application, it should still continue to work if you install the compatibility libraries. That's likely a much safer choice if you want timely updates for the next 2 years and you get the benefit of more current tools/kernels/etc. I wasn't even aware that 7.3 was still officially supported....

Cheers,