On Tuesday 08 May 2007 9:19:23 am Jim Perrin wrote: > On 5/8/07, James N. Smith <jnsmith at leschwartz.com> wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > > Could anyone comment on the implications of the upcoming 4.5 release on > > users who are using 4.4 and are happy with it? By doing regular updates > > to my 4.4 machines am I essentially running 4.5? Are there any > > compelling lifespan reasons to upgrade from 4.4 to 4.5? > > Minor numbers are update revisions. When 4.5 is released, and you run > 'yum update' on 4.4, you'll get 4.5. > > 4.5 is 4.x + bug/security fixes to that point. The lifespan for > centos4 is 7 years. During that time, you'll have 4.0 thru 4.18 or > whatever the final minor point revision ends up being. > > Basically yes, you want this upgrade. I'm not sure I understand this reply. If a system is installed from 4.4, and regular updates are done, it's my understanding that there is no compelling reason to download and install 4.5; that the release of 4.5 is just to change the starting point for new installs. Regards, Tim -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070508/b255179c/attachment-0004.sig>