On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:30:07PM -0400, mark wrote: > Rafa³ Radecki wrote: > > > Hmm, it is a dedicated distribution with proprietary software :| > > What is CenOS, except RHEL with the proprietary parts removed. Therefore, I > assume that CentOS 4.6 was out in by the fall of '06, which was the point I was > making. Some vendors claim that updating your distro will void your warranty/ support contract. I had one vendor which claimed that updating the kernel to patch a serious security hole would void our contract (though they did ''allow'' us to update the rest of the distro). It turns out, the vendor didn't want to allow users to update the kernel because they used the nvidia X11 drivers, and they didn't want to walk users through the process of updating those (which at the time were linked to the kernel version). Oy! If I'd known that, I could have patched our kernel much sooner, since the nvidia install is pretty trivial. Grr, vendors can be frustrating sometimes. Anyway, this story does have a bit of a point: for the OP, you might want to check with your vendor on the exact reason why they don't want you to update. It might be something you can work around. --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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