why would you want centos on a desktop? or anything else that is 3-5 years out of date. Centos itself is falling way behind on updates from rhel. Being supported doesn't necessarily mean it's the most secure or usable.

In 2011 CentOS disconnected CentOS-5 from Centos-6 processes to provide zero impact release cycles, they set up a Continuous Release repo for both CentOS 5 and CentOS 6 ('yum install centos-release-cr') to ensure security updates are available as they are released and they managed to release CentOS-6.2 on 12/20/2011 and in less than 2 weeks.

Back to your comment. Yes, it's clear there were hick-ups due to staffing. But as far as I've read your comment only applied to the initial Centos6 and CentOS-6.1 releases back then.


For more see http://planet.centos.org/.

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I apologize then. I more or less stopped paying attention around that time. I'll have to read up on newer things I guess. Thanks for the new information.

RedFedora,
https://www.linux.com/news/software/...tivirus-needed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10...ndows_viruses/