[CentOS] CentOS 7.3

Thu Mar 18 21:03:50 UTC 2021
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> 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.
>>
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>>Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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>
> 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