On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org>wrote:
> Hi Kay, > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 04:33:05PM -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: > > Well, Ok. I think we need to maintain a secure environment with > > anything used for our builds -- libraries, etc. That would be my only > > concern with "older" items. > > CentOS 5 is currently being maintained; in fact, the "latest and > greatest" 5 version has been released on January 2013 > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-January/019205.html > > CentOS 5 will get full updates until Q1 2014, and maintenance updates > until March 31st, 2017 > http://wiki.centos.org/About/Product > > http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d > > This means there will be security and other critical bug fixes until > 2017, while maintaining the kernel and glibc base (2.6.18 and 2.5, > respectively). > > You won't find this in other distros, not even Debian (squeeze has > glibc-2.11 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/glibc-2.11-1), which is > known for "stability than cutting-edge packages". > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina > Good to know! Thanks. I'm just not familiar with CentOS. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin."