[CentOS] Re: "yum --security" and staying with 5.0

Scott Silva wrote:
> If you wanted to re-install every 12 to 18 months, you might as well use 
> Fedora! This just seems to go "bass ackwards" to what an enterprise 
> distro means. I guess RedHat is just trying to play to a bigger audience 
> to maybe boost their revenue stream a bit, which I don't fault them for, 
> because a business needs to be in the black to stay open.

you would only get onto that situation of reinstall or major upgrade 
every 18 months or so, if you kept getting into the release branches. 
Which, honestly, I dont imagine most people will want to do. If you stay 
with CentOS-5, you are fine for the normal 7 to 11 years support cycle. 
Which is how CentOS always worked as.

yes, the situation is somewhat confusing, however, thats only for the 
people who want to break their distro or do their own branching. For 
everyone else, its business as usual.

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