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What are the differences between centos 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3? Are they all based on RedHat Enterprise Server (sic Linux) ... [CentOS 3 Specific]

Requested and Answered by donavan [donavan] on 26-Nov-2004 03:59 (17964 reads)

What are the differences between centos 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3? Are they all based on RedHat Enterprise Server (sic Linux) 3 ?

1) There is no CentOS 3.2.
2) CentOS 3.1 and CentOS 3.3 are both based on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
3) RedHat releases updates for their releases in quarterly cycles
CentOS 3.1 is RHEL 3 with update set 1 (U1)
CentOS 3.3 is RHEL 3 with update set 3 (U3)

FYI: RHEL 3 is based on RedHat Linux 9.

[Ed. Note: answer based on irc messages by skvidal]

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jgiglio	Posted: 2005/3/15 18:25 Updated: 2005/3/15 18:25
Newbie Joined: 2004/12/7 From: Posts: 1	Centos 3.4 I've been told that 3.3 will no longer be on the mirrors real soon now. You also can't upgrade with a simple "yum update" from 3.3 to 3.4, you must edit your yum.conf and change all the references to $releasever to 3. Yeah, I think this sucks too.

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lance	Posted: 2005/4/14 23:30 Updated: 2005/4/14 23:30
Newbie Joined: 2004/10/12 From: Posts: 5	Re: Centos 3.4 Well you have been told right - but have been misinformed about the yum update which will work fine. 3.3 will symlink to 3.4 so all the new packages will be picked up along with the new centos-release rpm that will update the release number.