On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Ian Murray <murrayie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Only joking. I take your point, but the critical fixes being held up for a dot > release isn't really very Enterprise friendly either. I think it fair to say > that CentOS is not suitable for the enterprise unless the servers are > non-public, on a secure network and the risk of internal hacking is low. That is > just an unfortunate nature of a rebuild project but it does make the release > time a sensitive matter. > > Karanbir tweeted during FOSDEM that the Belgian police use CentOS. As everyone > who is paying attention knows that any exploit that RedHat has released an > updated package for post is 5.6 is sat waiting to be exploited on those police > servers because it won't make the CentOS repositories until 5.6 is out. I wonder > if the Belgian police know that. > > So.... if anybody can be bothered to check the errata from upstream and want to > do some mischief.....fill your boots... > > http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.polfed-fedpol.be The best thing CentOS gives you is choice. If your critical machines need updates in a more timely manner, then put RHEL on them. For those that don't put CentOS on them and save $$$. Free is free and it comes free of warranty or guarantee or any other tee. -Ross -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110223/1974117d/attachment-0003.html>