[CentOS] ETA

Thu Apr 28 18:36:36 UTC 2011
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 04/28/2011 01:34 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 04/28/2011 01:18 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
>> At Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:25:26 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear developers,
>>>
>>> I don't care for reasons, arguments, or flamefests. I need to plan my
>>> workload.
>>>
>>> By now I have half a dozen servers overdue for reimaging. I can put this
>>> off for another week or two, but not really much longer.
>>>
>>> There's obviously no point in installing centos 5 on any new machine.
>>
>> I am not so sure about that.  If you need the machine up today, install
>> 5.6 on it -- you can always upgrade later.  If you want bleeding edge
>> software install Fedora Core 14.  Otherwise sit tight.  Hassling the
>> developers is not going to make CentOS 6 show up any sooner.
>>
>> I know that if I needed a server up this week or next week, I'd go ahead
>> and install CentOS 5.6.  (And I would have installed CentOS 5.5 back
>> before CentOS 5.6 was released.)
>>
> 
> CentOS-5.x has an EOL data of March 31, 2014.  I deploy new 5.x servers
> all the time.
> 
> 3 years is half of the useful lifetime of the distribution.
> 
> But, if people have to make a decision and deploy within the new 2
> weeks, then I would not be waiting for 6.0 to be released during that time.
> 
> We might have a tree with installable net images by then.

I meant to say "IN QA" by then :)

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