On Thursday, December 16, 2010 05:45:36 pm Sean wrote:
> If so, the problem is in reconciling that meaning with the reputation of
> CentOS to only support older versions of applications (eg Firefox-1.5,
> Thunderbird-1.0 etc).
Where do people get this? On one of my up to date CentOS 5 VM's:
[root@zoneminder1 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
[root@zoneminder1 ~]# rpm -qi firefox
Name : firefox Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 3.6.13 Vendor: CentOS
[snip]
[root@zoneminder1 ~]# yum list thunderbird
Available Packages
thunderbird.x86_64 2.0.0.24-13.el5.centos updates
[root@zoneminder1 ~]#
On one of my CentOS 4 boxes, fully up to date:
[root@pachyderm ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.8 (Final)
[root@pachyderm ~]# yum list firefox
Available Packages
firefox.i386 3.6.13-3.el4.centos update
[root@pachyderm ~]# yum list thunderbird
Available Packages
thunderbird.i386 1.5.0.12-34.el4.centos update
[root@pachyderm ~]#
Hmmm, how about CentOS 3 (of course, I have DAG enabled on that box, so it shows up):
[root@campus root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 3.9 (Final)
[root@campus root]# yum list firefox
[snip]
Looking in Available Packages:
Name Arch Version Repo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
firefox i386 0.8-3.1.el3.dag dag
And thunderbird isn't available. Not surprised at the age, though, as that's Fedora Core 1 timeframes for C3.
So on the currently supported CentOS releases, 4 and 5, Firefox 3.6.13, Firefox 3.6.13 is available. So where does this FUD of 'FF 1.5 only' come from?
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