The advantage of long term support from Centos doesn't really help linuxCNC
too much, because they will be updating the kernel too. So even though it
may be an old kernel version, it will have security fixes in it that will
make any RTAI patches fail. The thing that's driving me nuts at work is
that we have a code repository and wiki on a computer running Fedora 10.
Fedora 10 no longer receives security updates, so the Apache used for these
two purposes has holes you could drive a truck through. While it is behind
a firewall, that doesn't stop the students from playing. There is no
reason to be running this computer on a bleeding edge distribution like
Fedora. We had an Enterprise Redhat version administered by the university
up until someone hacked it and started using it for DOS attacks on a game
server in Texas.
Eric
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