[CentOS] Looks like 3.8 is not ready to download

Fri Aug 25 02:21:48 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:40 +0000, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> This is just a heads up that 3.8 does not look ready to download.  
> There are 3.8 files at the CentOS mirrors, but the files (including the
> iso images) are constantly changing or disappearing.  It looks like
> the hard-working diligent CentOS workers are making some last minute
> changes before getting CentOS 3.8 out the door.  I presume that
> there will be a posting made to this list when 3.8 is ready--I hope
> this doesn't end up like 3.6, when the files are uploaded but not a
> peep on the mailing list nor webpage that a new 3.x release of CentOS
> has been made.
> 
> I know most people are probably using 4.x, but I prefer 3.x because I know
> the software on this release is guaranteed to be present in any more
> modern Linux distro (maybe as an updated version); CentOS 3.x is the
> oldest codebase being currently maintained for any free Linux
> distro.
> 
> - Sam

Sam ... we will announce when it is ready :)

You mean this for 3.6 (pretty sneaky how we hide that stuff in the
announce list :) :

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-November/012349.html
-------------------------------------
For a reason why things are changing ... look here:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2006-August/msg00072.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202446

There is no working rescue mode on the upstream el3u8 right now ...
there will be one on CentOS-3.8 before we release.  Hopefully someone
appreciates the effort we take in testing our releases and not just
rubber stamping it out the door like some of the other rebuild projects.


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060824/8617f8e2/attachment-0005.sig>