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CentOS 5.9 Released
kthreadd writes "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 derivative CentOS version 5.9 has been released just 10 days after its upstream provider. According to the release notes a number of changes have been made. New packages available in CentOS 5.9 includes for example OpenJDK 7 and Rsyslog 5. Several drivers have also been updated in the kernel which has been updated to version 2.6.18-348, including support for Microsoft's virtualization environment Hyper-V." CentOS has been plugging away now for nearly 10 years.
after a period of sluggishness, it's awesome the CentOS team has pulled together again after difficulties and management problems.
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I'm proud to say that we host all of our servers on Centos! It is the best free server OS out there, IMHO.
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IMO, one of the drawbacks of Linux (including CentOS) as a server OS compared to FreeBSD is the lack of a good file system. FreeBSD (and Solaris) have ZFS which has robust checksum and parity features, while Linux has nothing of the kind, at least not yet. Has any progress been made on this front?
I've been using it at work for a few years now.
I used to dislike it because the packages were a bit older than everything I'd be able to install on a personal Linux machine running something different.
But there is definitely something to be said about having a stable ABI. Anything I build on my CentOS 6 VM I can run on another CentOS 6 machine. Not sure if the same can be said for other distributions if one of the systems has had upgrades to some of its libraries at some point.
Big thanks to the CentOS team for all their hard work.
Now, RedHat, please do not include GNOME 3 in RHEL 7. Use MATE or something. But please, for the sake of people who use your platform as a TOOL and not a TOY, keep GNOME 3 out!!
Centos 5 is still getting updates. It is a previous version.
You should probably know that if you are running more than one of these machines.
Don't they fork RHEL? RHEL 5.9 came out relatively recently. RHEL still provides updates to 5x and 6x, so it makes sense that CentOS would also still be putting out CentOS 5x in tandem with 6x.
6.0 broke off around 5.4, but had a lot of newer stuff in the base. However, security updates and maintenance patches are still released for the 5.x series because, frankly, getting what you need on the system you already have is a lot easier than changing a whole lot just to get something you might want. Sure, on the privacy of your own workstation or non-production server, jumping major versions is no big deal, but on a production server, it can often times be more trouble than its worth.
Essentially, if you don't know why you should be interested in 5.9, you're not the target market for 5.9.
Their rpm announcements were all back dated.
They didn't release any of the 5.9 rpms on the dates they are making public.
You mean the packages that were released prior to the 5.9 install media in the Continuous Release repo? Perhaps you should review this page - http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
And more to the specific technical point, there's no easy, supported migration path from 5.x to 6.x.. The Centos Wiki howto page states with discouraging repetetiveness "A fresh install is generally strongly preferred over an upgrade. "
This, plus a host of not-very-specific "gotcha" warnings, and the entire guide ending with "Good luck", pretty much guarantees only the masochistic or the suicidally brave will undertake an upgrade-in-place to 6.x, rather than just staying with 5.x and picking up the point updates for security and reliability updates.
For myself, I'm running 5.x on my household server, and I'll be yum-updating to pick up 5.9. I'll migrate to 6.x when I do a full server hardware refresh, in which case it'll be a turnkey replacement with the possibility of limited parallel ops and fallback if it all goes sideways.
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