[CentOS] Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Sat May 22 19:10:31 UTC 2010
Aniruddha wrote:
> Thanks for the quick replies. I understand now that CentOS 5 and all
> 5.? versions are supported until 2014. How does this work with
> security updates? Does each point release gets itś own security
> updates? In other words is it possible to install
> CentOS 5.5 on a server and only apply security updates for 7 years? Or
> is it required to upgrade to each point release in order to continue
> receiving security updates?
>
there is no distinction between bug fixes and security updates (Indeed,
many bugs lead to potential security exploits). centos 5.5 is just a
snapshot of centos 5 at a particular point in time. updates will take
that to 5.6 or 5.7 or whatever state is released, but its all still CentOS 5
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