[CentOS] New on CentOS and update to 4.4

> What's about all the other 165 packages announced in Up2date? Can I update
> these packages without furthermore problems?

Perfectly safe to go ahead and do. the only potential issue would be a
timeout to the mirror you're updating from because around release
time, EVERYONE is hitting the mirrors. You should also really use yum
instead of up2date.



> Now I get the message in Up2date, that the kernel-utils 2.4-13.1.83 marked to
> left out. Is this okay or can I update these kernel-utils too.

You'll want the updated kernel-utils, yes. That's what has smartd,
cpuspeed, dmidecode and a bunch of other good utils in it.

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