[CentOS] the 5.2 loaders

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Apr 8 18:22:55 UTC 2009


on 4-6-2009 9:32 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following:
> Just looking around at log files and other places, I noticed today that 
> there are still a lot of people installing and downloading 5.2.
> 
> While a large number of installs would be since people already have the 
> 5.2 media - thats fine, however, new downloads for 5.2 media today makes 
> little sense ( to me ) - so whats going on here ?
> 
> What can we do in order to better, faster, more visibly communicate the 
> fact that 5.3 is the new target most people should be focusing on.
> 
> I cam imagine there are people with specific needs and they would want 
> the 5.2 media - but not a number so large, that its almost 80% of all 
> the people downloading 5.3 these days.
> 
> 
> - KB
You have seen enough people on this list that think they are completely
different versions, and they might think that 5.2 is more stable. I can't
count how many times we have had to tell someone that yum update makes their
system whatever the current version is.



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