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
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