on 6-27-2008 8:00 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: > John Bowden wrote: >> Hi Folks. >> Just a quick question. I have been sharing CenOS 5.0 and 5.1 since I down >> loaded them. Now we are on to 5.2 is it still worth sharing them or can I >> archive them to DVD and save some hard drive space? >> Regards John > > We normally drop the torrents from the tracker around the time a new > version is released so you should as well. Do you even see any traffic > on these older torrents ? > > By the way, I think we ( as a community ) should strongly discurage > people from installing older software specially since the older stuff > now has known and published widely bug's and potentially remote security > issues. Ofcourse there are people who will, due to whatever reason, > still want to get out there and install an older version - they are > welcome to use the vault.centos.org machines. > > - KB With exception to the people hit with the powernow glitch. They will never be able to install with a 5.2 cd or dvd since the installer kernels probably won't be changed unless by the slim chance that upstream does. -- 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: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080701/b0887488/attachment-0002.sig>