Unless the curriculum covers updates. Peace, Allan James Hogarth wrote: >>> i just don't want to teach off of 5.3, only to find out later that >>> they've been keeping up to date and 5.5 would have been a more >>> appropriate choice. thanks for any tips. >> On a certain level there really isn't much difference from a general >> admin POV -- it does not really make sense to go into a certain level of >> detail (like specific version numbers). Basic functionallity is not >> going to change from point version to point version. >> > > There is a limited amount of truth to this - but it depends on the > topic being taught. Redhat usually adds functionality to the point > releases as they go - a few examples in the current 5.X release cycle > being KVM virtualisation, postgres-8.4 and the ext4 filesystem..... > > The X part of 5.X refers to a point in time of Redhat... but that > really is a point in time and in terms of maintaining a system there > is only RHEL5... there really is no point installing 5.3 when you > should keep up to date on updates and particularly depending on the > topic to be taught as well. > > James > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >