[CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

[Giovanni Tirloni]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Alain Péan
<alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote:
> Le 21/07/2011 14:45, Always Learning a écrit :
>> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
>>
>>> it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out.
>>> I see amoung others:
>>>
>>> kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm
>>> redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm
>> Thanks Rainer.
>>
>> The dilemma is whether to upgrade from 5.6 to 6.1 or stay with 5.x as
>> more 5.x versions (5.8, 5.9, 5.10 etc. might be possible). For me the
>> only negative aspect of 5.x is old kernel 2.6.18 whereas 6.x is 2.6.32?
>>
>
> The dilemna is for the CentOS developper team. Following the decision
> last January, it would be natural that the priority would be to release
> 5.7, as there are "millions" of existing systems needing to be updated,
> rather than releasing 6.1, where very few systems are already in
> production, and 6.1 updates are backported to 6.0.
>
> So I fear that 6.1 will be postponed...

Whatever is done I can only thank the CentOS team for doing this work
while taking an huge amount of heat.

IMHO, companies on the CentOS 5.x have just recently migrated to 5.6
and I believe there is a lot less pressure for them to go to 5.7.

However, CentOS 6.0 is the first release and most companies ignore
those for a reason. That puts more pressure on releasing a 6.1 version
which companies will actually consider using.

Just my $0.02

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Giovanni Tirloni