[CentOS] Dell Precision M6700 with centos 5?

Ned Slider ned at unixmail.co.uk
Fri Feb 22 14:27:38 UTC 2013


On 22/02/13 12:51, Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 22.02.2013 um 13:01 schrieb Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>:
>> On 22/02/13 08:26, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> On 2/22/2013 12:12 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>>> 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).
>
>
>
> Is the latter also true for CentOS? I do not think so.
>

Yes, sorry, presumably lifespan for CentOS will match the standard Red 
Hat offering until 2017. The extended support is only available through 
Red Hat.





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