CentOS (RHEL Compatible)

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CentOS distro has been updated to 4.3.

  • See Multiple IPs for CentOS related info on multiple IPs
  • NPTL means the Native POSIX Thread Library, a project sponsored by Redhat (starting around 2002) to replace the older Linuxthreads library. NPTL is often misspelled NTPL.

[edit] Update the RPMs for 2.4.x kernel or non NPTL kernel

If you want to use the stable 2.4.x kernel with CentOS 4.0, don't update kernel, kernel-*, glibc, glibc-*. Add the following into the [main] section of /etc/yum.conf 

exclude=kernel kernel-* glibc glibc-*

[edit] Update the RPMs for 2.6.x kernel or NPTL kernel

If you want to use NPTL-kernels, then you must update glibc, glibc-* to the most recent version (glibc-2.3.4-2.19, NPTL supported), and disable /usr/tls directory by 

mv /usr/tls /usr/tls-disabled-`date +"%y%m%d%H%M"`

But still add the following into the [main] section of /etc/yum.conf 

exclude=kernel kernel-*

Otherwise, yum will install the regular kernel

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