> At 11:47 AM 3/18/2021, you wrote: >>On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 04:44:18PM -0000, Mark Woolfson wrote: >> > I have a requirement to load CentOS 7.3 on to a server. I have the >> > distribution on a bootable USB key. >> >>I know this comes up on the list quite often, but if you want security >>updates for 7.3, you're going to end up with 7.9 + patches, so why are >>you making your life difficult and installing such an old release? >> >>If a vendor is telling you that you have to run a particular version, >>perhaps you should consider finding another vendor, the baseline 7.3 >>has a lot of glaring vulnerabilities in it that are readily >>exploitable. >> >>-- >>Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> >>_______________________________________________ >>CentOS mailing list >>CentOS at centos.org >>https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > One reason might be that somewhere between 7.3 and 7.9, Centos ceased > being bootable on Apple hardware. At least that failure occurred for > me on two machines. > > David > But he was talking about a server, something that Apple doesn't have for a long time now. Simon