On Thursday, December 16, 2010 05:45:36 pm Sean wrote: > If so, the problem is in reconciling that meaning with the reputation of > CentOS to only support older versions of applications (eg Firefox-1.5, > Thunderbird-1.0 etc). Where do people get this? On one of my up to date CentOS 5 VM's: [root at zoneminder1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.5 (Final) [root at zoneminder1 ~]# rpm -qi firefox Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 3.6.13 Vendor: CentOS [snip] [root at zoneminder1 ~]# yum list thunderbird Available Packages thunderbird.x86_64 2.0.0.24-13.el5.centos updates [root at zoneminder1 ~]# On one of my CentOS 4 boxes, fully up to date: [root at pachyderm ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.8 (Final) [root at pachyderm ~]# yum list firefox Available Packages firefox.i386 3.6.13-3.el4.centos update [root at pachyderm ~]# yum list thunderbird Available Packages thunderbird.i386 1.5.0.12-34.el4.centos update [root at pachyderm ~]# Hmmm, how about CentOS 3 (of course, I have DAG enabled on that box, so it shows up): [root at campus root]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 3.9 (Final) [root at campus root]# yum list firefox [snip] Looking in Available Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- firefox i386 0.8-3.1.el3.dag dag And thunderbird isn't available. Not surprised at the age, though, as that's Fedora Core 1 timeframes for C3. So on the currently supported CentOS releases, 4 and 5, Firefox 3.6.13, Firefox 3.6.13 is available. So where does this FUD of 'FF 1.5 only' come from?