[CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

Sun Jul 10 21:17:44 UTC 2011
David Lemcoe <forum at lemcoe.com>

Just so you know, I believe almost all mirrors have 6.0 on their disks.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:

> Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at ...> writes:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 07/09/2011 05:23 PM, Edson - PMSS wrote:
> > > I really like CentOS, but it is undeniable the delay in the release of
> > > version 6.0.
> >
> > yes, we all clearly take that on board - I hope the changes we are
> > bringing in helps clear that, and prevent this sort of a situation. But
> > there are still lots of places for improvements, and over the next few
> > months lets try and address all of those.
> >
> > - KB
> >
> Because I needed the 6.0 versions of dhcpd and named for some IPv6 testing
> I was
> doing, I grabbed Scientific Linux 6.0 right after it was released.  I also
> signed up for the SL mailing list.  A couple of weeks ago (June 20th or so)
> the
> SL folks announced the availability of SL 5.6.  I would interpret this as
> the SL
> team chose to work on 6.0 and left 5.6 for later while the CentOS team
> worked on
> 5.6 and left 6.0 for later.
>
> I have no insight into what level of support the SL folks get from their
> sponsoring organization (CERN and Fermilab) but as far as I'm concerned
> getting
> the two releases out (5.6 and 6.0) was a dead heat between the two
> distributions.  This is especially true if you consider that the SL team
> had the
> benefit of the CentOS team's experience with 5.6.  I mention this because
> it
> indicates to me that the CentOS process isn't broken.  On the other hand,
> if not
> getting 5.6 and 6.0 out sooner gets more people involved in helping, it may
> have
> long term benefits.
>
> These are just my observations on two different teams working to release
> the
> same two releases.  Carefully consider what changes you make to the release
> process.  Oh yeah, great job guys and, yes, I'll be moving the SL 6 boxes
> and
> VMs back to CentOS as time allows mainly because the community just isn't
> there
> for SL (most days the mailing list only has a dozen or so posts; most of
> them
> not very technical).
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
>
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