I am fully aware of it. But upgrades to the kernel are not the same as newer kernel. And "same" kernel with upgrades means same core packages that block using newer apps. Ljubomir John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > >> Just newer kernel and newer core packages that can drive newer >> applications. CentOS 5.5 kernel and core packages are 3-4 years old in >> the (Linux) world that dramatically changed since then. > > I wouldn't refer to the 5.5 kernel as 3-4 years old as there are significant > backports to the EL5 kernel such that 5.5's kernel is measurably different to > 5.0, and even further away from 2.6.18. > > jh > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >