on 8-21-2008 9:24 AM Patrick Derwael spake the following: > "Patrick Derwael" <patrick at derwael.be> > writes: >> Can someone tell me what the exact CentOS policy for end-of-life is >> for 5.0? > > As far as I know, 5.0 itself is pretty much EOL; updates are not being > released for it. 5, on the other hand, won't be EOL for quite a few > years. > > <snip> > > I imagine that Parallel Pro will probably work on 5.2. 5.2 isn't really > a new release of CentOS, but is rather an update set to CentOS 5. Think > of it as CentOS 5 Service Pack 2, if you will. The vast majority of it > (some desktop apps, such as Firefox, excluded) should be 100% > binary-compatible with 5.0. > > Running 5.0 is not recommended, as you will not have security support. > If keeping as close to 5.0 as possible is desired, you could probably > install 5.0 and then only install the security-related updates. > > - Michael > > */[Patrick Derwael] /* > > Michael, > The point is that Parallel supports exactly CentOS 4.4 and 5.0, Fedora > 4 and 6 and RHEL 4ES and 5ES. > I’m a bit stuck here! > > As far as my other systems are concerned, (pen testing) I will reinstall > them under Centos 5.2 in the coming weeks > > Thanks! Do you have a link to this application's website? Maybe we could determine why it might be stuck to a limited set of OS releases. If a software can't keep up with a limited subset of OS updates, maybe they are concerned more with costs then security. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080821/539592d0/attachment-0005.sig>