On 13/12/2010 19:03, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/12/13 Gé Weijers<ge at weijers.org>: >> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> RHEL is much better about that, although by now the "production" RHEL >>> 5 is 4 years out of date, the "leading edge" RHEL 6 is now one year >>> out of date after the lengthy release testing, and CentOS will always >>> lag that. >> I believe "out of date" is the wrong wording. RHEL/CentOS 5 is maintained, >> i.e. security issues and bugs are fixed. There's nothing "out of date" >> about a tool that works and is cost-effective. RHEL 6 still has to prove >> itself. > RHEL provides 10 year support cycle, I hope Centos can do same :) > Not a problem. CentOS dies then you just change the repositories in yum and force update. RedHat have knowingly provided support for 'adopted' servers in the past for us.