On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Matthew Valentino <astrochase at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm relatively new to CentOS. I ordered a VPS and requested CentOS 5.5. As I > was installing packages, I noticed that some of the versions are pretty old > - for example, Postfix is v 2.3 in the repo (and, according to Postfix's > website - no longer mainted). Is this a security risk as the current version > is 2.7.1? > Building and compiling Postfix from source seems to cause additional > problems with yum, so I'm not sure what to do other than perhaps switch to > something like Fedora. Perhaps there's a third-party repo with updated > packages that I haven't found? > Thanks, > Matt Welcome to CentOS. You may want to read the FAQ at: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ This one will answer your questions: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-472ce8446ebcfc82ca1800f775ba0e629ac835c7 Please be sure to read the two links in there. :) Akemi