[CentOS] Inquiry:Migration from Linux 7.2 to CentOS 5

[John R Pierce]

hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of 
> major benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 
> (Enigma) as we are going to migrate to it

Benefits are in the eye of the beholder.

Red Hat Linux 7.x is about 8 years old, and has been a discontinued and 
unsupported product for about 6 years, which means no security updates 
or anything.  It also won't have any support for any new hardware since 
it was disccontinued circa 2003.

CentOS 5, based on RHEL 5, is a current actively supported product.   
Its built with a much newer kernel, newer versions of all the major 
components (GCC, glibc, apache, php, python, mysql, postgres, X windows, 
gnomee, kde, lvm, md-raid, etc etc etc.