[mdlug] CentOS for Production (CentOS 6.0 Vs 6.1 Vs 6.2)

[Jonathan Billings]

On Boomtime, the 57th of Chaos, 3178 , nk oorda said:
> What would be the best CentOS candidate for upgrade (CentOS 6.0 Vs 6.1 Vs
> 6.2)

Any CentOS 6 release earlier than CentOS 6.2 has a trivially
exploitable kernel.  (see
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0052.html)  Of course, the same
could be said of CentOS 5.3 kernels, which have had many updates since
it was released.  I'm going to assume you've kept it up to date and
just installed it as 5.3.

Basically, you don't choose the point release (unless you pay for an
extended support contract for RHEL), and you update to the latest
point release release when it comes out.  You can download the
installation media for CentOS 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2, but as soon as you run
'yum update', you'll be updated to the latest 6.2 updates.


-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>