Patrick Derwael wrote:

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*/[Patrick Derwael] /* The point is that Parallel supports exactly CentOS 4.4 and 5.0, Fedora 4 and 6 and RHEL 4ES and 5ES.

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Primary focus of this policy is to address the specific issue you are running up against

My only issue is that I want to be able to get support from Parallels, and (I know software vendors!!) it would be too easy for them to say "Sorry, your OS version is not supported"...

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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.

Parallels is selling virtualization products and web hosting solutions. I was originally using a hosting package called Ensim, but Parallels bought Ensim over a while ago. Today, due to business growth, I need to expand my hosting capacity and to add an extra licence from Parakllels.

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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 ).

I currently run Fedora 7 --> I have to rebuild brand new systems from ISOs

Thanks !