[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

[Les Mikesell]

Brian Mathis wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Jay Lee <jlee at pbu.edu> wrote:
> [...]
>> CentOS 5 is a .0 release, you might be better served using CentOS 4.5
>> which has had much more tme to prove itself as a DNS Server.
> [...]
>> Jay
> 
> Please don't propagate this idea.  That is very "Windows wait for
> service pack 1" way of thinking. 

Actually it is an 'old' Red Hat way of thinking from the pre-fedora era 
and was very much true for RH versions up though 7.x.

> Linuxes actually go through
> extensive pre-release public beta testing, the kind of stuff Microsoft
> does on its .0 releases. 

I'd say "Enterprise Linux distributions" there.  It's not true for all 
or even most Linux distributions.

 > When a new CentOS release lands, it has
> landed.

Yes, Centos qualifies as an enterprise version.  Plus something like DNS 
will be fixed immediately if any problems are noticed - long before an 
x.1 update.

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   Les Mikesell
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