On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, John Peach <post...@johnpeach.com> wrote: > On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:30:36 +0200 > Eero Volotinen <eero.voloti...@iki.fi> wrote: >> > Centos 5.4 - while it looks like a good choice, there has been some >> > political infighting going on recently which makes us a little >> > nervous about its future. In addition we have found that a number >> > of the core packages we wish to use are out of date (postfix, >> > dovecot, amavisd-new among them). >> >> Centos 5.x is my selection. You can also use packages from epel and >> dag's rpm repositories. > > It suffers from Red Hat's liking for sendmail. The postfix package is > aeons old. I would go with Ubuntu (probably 9.04 which is a long-term > support version). > > -- > John >
The age of a package only matters if you absolutely need a feature that's included in the newer version. All of the security fix are backported. If you do really need the newer versions, you can get RPMs from third party repositories.
