Re: Inquiry:Migration from Linux 7.2 to CentOS 5

[Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, hadi motamedi <motamedi24@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you please do me favor and let me know what are the highlights of major
> benefits of CentOS Release 5 (Final) over the RedHat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) as
> we are going to migrate to it ?

The major benefits of upgrading, as I see it are:
(1) Ongoing support and security
(2) New software packages and more recent versions of many old ones

The major drawbacks are:
(1) Support for some older hardware is gone
(2) Several packages have been discontinued or replaced with inferior
alternatives [*]
(3) Any custom software that depends on libc5 is out of luck

[* due to stricter licensing constraints]
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