Steve centos doesn't tend to do the annoying backport annoyance (yes that's intentional). I am also aware of some of the reasons since I use a custom kernel and a bunch of security optimized application instances - my security team advises against upgrading certain libraries such as openssl (one of the affected libs for us under centos5.5) since there are many unpatched security holes in them...
As far as the issue with RH backporting that is frustrating as it could be... did the version scott added work for you like it did me - or can you not run the centos one? -- Dan Horning American Digital Services - Where you are only limited by imagination. dan.horn...@planetnoc.com :: http://www.americandigitalservices.com 1-518-444-0213 x502 . toll free 1-800-863-3854 . fax 1-888-474-6133 PO Box 746, Troy, NY 12181 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Sobol" <sjso...@justthe.net> > To: "Scott Best" <sb...@echogent.com> > Cc: "EchoVNC -users" <echovnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:16:59 PM > Subject: Re: [Echovnc-users] EchoServer for Linux version 1.67 > Scott Best > Monday, March 28, 2011 8:51 AM > > > Heyaz. I updated that package this morning to include a version built > for the CentOS 5.5 flavor. > > Turns out ... CentOS is optimized for stability, so they hold back on > some updates that other Linux flavors move ahead with. For example, > libstdc++. On the echoServer we've built for demo.echovnc.com (which > runs Debian 5), we use the recent g++-3.4.9 library, so we need a > runtime library that is compatible with libstdc++-3.4.9. And ... > CentOS' default libstdc++ isn't. > > Are you sure about that? > > My problem with Red Hat, and therefore CentOS, is that they have > version X of an app or library, and version X+1 comes out... and > instead of releasing an RPM for version X+1, they backport the changes > to the version X RPM. > > So, for any given piece of software, the publisher can release a dozen > updates, but the version number on the RPM doesn't change until the > next release of Red Hat/CentOS. > > Irritated the hell out of me when I had to deal with SecurityMetrics, > who was doing a security audit on a client's site, on my server. "You > need to be running Apache X, and you're running Apache Y." "Actually, > it's fully patched." Meh. > > It's annoying enough that any future Linux servers I own will run > Debian. > > (end rant)
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