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click here. RE: Really a good distro by gnufreex on Tue 27th Jul
2010 18:31 UTC in reply to "Really a good distro" Member since:
Don't be confused by old version number for kernel. Red Hat
backports lots of things, especially hardware drivers. RHEL 5.5
which have 2.6.16-based (or something) kernel actualy supports
POWER7 and Nehalem EX (Xeon 7500) iron which just come out.
Only problem with CentOS is that lags about 2 months beyond RHEL
in releases and updates, and that includes security updates too.
That means: When RHSA (red hat security alert) alerts paid RHEL
customers to update and patch newfound security issue, you have
to wait ~2 months for that patch to lend in CentOS. So you're
leaving a window of opportunity for hackers. But luckily, there
is always workaround for security issue, so you typically just
need to block some port or do some kludge to secure your server
until patch lands. And security issues that show up in RHEL are
usually n