>From the front page ( <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage">http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage</a> ):<br><br>"<strong>What is CentOS?</strong> <br>
CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the <a class="ftp" href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/">freely available sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a>.
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."<br><br>
CentOS 4
( <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4">http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4</a> ):<br>"We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012"<br>
<br>
CentOS 5
( <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5">http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5</a> ):<br>"We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014"<br><br><br>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)<br>
<br>-Jonathan<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jezell@hmhca.com">jezell@hmhca.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:<br>
><br>
>> multi-processor machine ( I had to remember to specify smp<br>
>for the kernel)<br>
><br>
>I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really?<br>
><br>
>Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really specific<br>
>to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by<br>
>installing Centos4<br>
>now?<br>
><br>
>(not to mention Zaptel)<br>
><br>
>--<br>
> Tzafrir Cohen<br>
<br>
</div>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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