One piece of information I have not seen in this thread is that the "old" RHL 7.2 was the basis for RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1, which had its support ended earlier this year. That being said, I will now add my voice to those pointing out that in today's Internet environment, it is only prudent to get yourself onto some OS that is currently maintained, with patches for bugs and fixes for newly-discovered security issues. My $0.02 ( US ) worth. On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 10:00 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, hadi motamedi <motamedi24 at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 ? > > The major benefits of upgrading, as I see it are: > (1) Ongoing support and security > (2) New software packages and more recent versions of many old ones > > The major drawbacks are: > (1) Support for some older hardware is gone > (2) Several packages have been discontinued or replaced with inferior > alternatives [*] > (3) Any custom software that depends on libc5 is out of luck > > [* due to stricter licensing constraints] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Ron Loftin reloftin at twcny.rr.com "God, root, what is difference ?" Piter from UserFriendly