Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Are you saying that simply running "yum update" on a Centos-5.1 system >> will convert it to Centos-5.2, as and when that is released? > All upgrades / updates in the major versions (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.1) will > happen automatically when you run yum upgrade, and when it's officially > released for updates. And I'm almost certain most, if not every, other > Linux distro also works like this Well, I never heard of a Fedora 9.1 distribution that could be "yum upgrade"d to Fedora 9.2 . IIRC, when RedHat (occasionally) had versions 8.1 and 8.2 they were completely different. Sorry to be dumb, but what is the point of calling it Centos-5.2? Is it just that if installing Centos from scratch, one could download a more up-to-date version?