Re: Is every CentOS release supported for 7 years?

[William Warren <hescominsoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/22/2010 3:39 PM, Aniruddha wrote:
> Coming from Gentoo ->  Debian I am to trying to understand the way
> CentOS works. In Debian very little happens in stable releases and you
> use apt-get update to apply security updates and apt-get dist-upgrade
> for a major upgrade.
>
> In CentOS there is an yum-security plugin which allows you to install
> security updates only. If I understand correctly the preferred way
> though is to do at least an yum upgrade every 6 months in order to
> upgrade to a point release.
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my mahcines run yum update every night.  Security updates are NOT only 
at the point releases but whenever the upstream releases them.
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