On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >>> CentOS 5.5, their latest, ships with Postfix 2.3.3, which hasn't been >>> supported by Wietse for quite some time. A new install of CentOS 5.5 >>> gives you an officially unsupported Postfix, thought I'm sure CentOS >>> will support it. >>> >>> Now _that_ is "lagging behind something awful". >> >> CentOS's support for current software is an abomination. I wonder why >> anyone takes it seriously. > > I've pondered this myself, and the conclusion I come to is that they are > ignorant newbs who are enamored with the "free" version of Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. They look at the price tag of RHEL and think they're getting something > good for nothing. They just don't realize RHEL is not "good" and is years > behind current, and that CentOS is months to years behind RHEL.
Some of us with older (but not THAT old) DELL hardware in our racks are forced to run RHEL and/or CentOS, since it's the only distro DELL official supports on that hardware. VERY recently, they've started partnering with SuSE and Ubuntu as well, but for most of the stuff in our racks, we're required to run RHEL to if we want system management software, remote access, firmware updates, current drivers for RAID adapters, etc. Still, I am (well, WAS) disappointed that Postfix 2.3.3 is what installs on CentOS 5.5 by default. But Postfix 2.8 wasn't that hard to compile. :) SteveJ
