On 22/02/13 08:26, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>>> any experiences with centos 5/rhel 5 install? machine is rhel 6.1 >>>>>> certified laptop? >>>> >>>> Why not install CentOS 6.3 instead? CentOS and RHEL are binary compatible. >> Yes, but Centos 5 is needed on this project. > > your project uses a laptop as the target ? > > why would any new project require an OS thats approaching end of service > life ? > > RHEL5 is supported until April 2017 so it's not exactly approaching end of life (2020 if you buy the extended support cycle).