>From the front page ( http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage ):
"*What is CentOS?* CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely available sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux<ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/>. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each CentOS version is regularly updated (every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux environment." CentOS 4 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4 ): "We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012" CentOS 5 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 ): "We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014" So if you don't want major upgrades for a while you might want to go with the latest version. To put it into Microsoft terms... the minor version is like a service pack. So CentOS 4.7 is really a base lined version 4, service pack 7. You get the new features in major releases (like there are no more "smp" kernels in 5 to deal with) -Jonathan On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote: > > > >> multi-processor machine ( I had to remember to specify smp > >for the kernel) > > > >I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really? > > > >Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really specific > >to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by > >installing Centos4 > >now? > > > >(not to mention Zaptel) > > > >-- > > Tzafrir Cohen > > Tzafrir thanks for the comments. I am not done playing with this and in > the end I may well use newer software as you suggest. > > According to wikipedia CentOS 4.7 was released OCT. 2008 (7 months ago) is > that really consider that old? I am looking to setup a phone system that I > would hope would not require any major software upgrades for many years. > > > Jimmy > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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