On 05/15/2011 08:41 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 16:35, Michel Donais <donais at telupton.com> wrote: >> A perhaps stupid question from a newby >> >> Why 4.9 is out in a so long time frame after 5.0? >> >> >> 5.6 -- CentOS - 4/8/11 SL - (Soon) <-- >> same time frame (1 of 3) >> 5.5 -- CentOS - 5/14/10 SL - 5/19/10 >> 5.4 -- CentOS - 10/21/9 SL - 11/4/9 >> 5.3 -- CentOS - 3/31/9 SL - 3/19/9 >> 5.2 -- CentOS - 6/24/8 SL - 6/26/8 >> 5.1 -- CentOS - 12/2/7 SL - 1/16/8 >> 5.0 -- CentOS - 4/12/7 SL - 5/4/7 >> 4.9 -- CentOS - 3/2/11 SL - 5/6/11 <-- >> > > It's a different branch. The 4.x branch had/has continued support even > though the 5.x (and now 6.x) branches are released. > Every branch of Enterprise Linux is supported with updated for 7 years ... that is the purpose of Enterprise Linux. This is as compared to the standard Linux distributions that usually have 1 year (current and last version ... release every 6 months). More info here for the upstream ... CentOS mirrors all but the "Extended Life Cycle": https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ (CentOS would also mirror the Extended Life Cycle, but we can not get the SRPMS from the upstream provider) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110515/e9a1cc28/attachment-0005.sig>