However, one thing has been emerging as a bit of a problem lately, and that is that security updates from Red Hat has taken quite some time to get built and released for CentOS. This is especially true in the weeks following a new point release from Red Hat. Not having security updates available for known problems for weeks a the time makes users of CentOS less secure than they would otherwise be.

To help make this problem a bit less pronounced I have started to rebuild security updates from Red Hat and installing them on the systems I administer. That's one of the beauties of open source, you can fix things. If anyone else is interested in those updated packages they can be found at http://rpm.resare.com/centos5-pre-security. If you're in the target demographic you'll know what to do.