Just so you know, I believe almost all mirrors have 6.0 on their disks. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM, David G. Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@davenjudy.org">dave@davenjudy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@...> writes:<br>
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><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> On 07/09/2011 05:23 PM, Edson - PMSS wrote:<br>
> > I really like CentOS, but it is undeniable the delay in the release of<br>
> > version 6.0.<br>
><br>
> yes, we all clearly take that on board - I hope the changes we are<br>
> bringing in helps clear that, and prevent this sort of a situation. But<br>
> there are still lots of places for improvements, and over the next few<br>
> months lets try and address all of those.<br>
><br>
> - KB<br>
><br>
</div>Because I needed the 6.0 versions of dhcpd and named for some IPv6 testing I was<br>
doing, I grabbed Scientific Linux 6.0 right after it was released. I also<br>
signed up for the SL mailing list. A couple of weeks ago (June 20th or so) the<br>
SL folks announced the availability of SL 5.6. I would interpret this as the SL<br>
team chose to work on 6.0 and left 5.6 for later while the CentOS team worked on<br>
5.6 and left 6.0 for later.<br>
<br>
I have no insight into what level of support the SL folks get from their<br>
sponsoring organization (CERN and Fermilab) but as far as I'm concerned getting<br>
the two releases out (5.6 and 6.0) was a dead heat between the two<br>
distributions. This is especially true if you consider that the SL team had the<br>
benefit of the CentOS team's experience with 5.6. I mention this because it<br>
indicates to me that the CentOS process isn't broken. On the other hand, if not<br>
getting 5.6 and 6.0 out sooner gets more people involved in helping, it may have<br>
long term benefits.<br>
<br>
These are just my observations on two different teams working to release the<br>
same two releases. Carefully consider what changes you make to the release<br>
process. Oh yeah, great job guys and, yes, I'll be moving the SL 6 boxes and<br>
VMs back to CentOS as time allows mainly because the community just isn't there<br>
for SL (most days the mailing list only has a dozen or so posts; most of them<br>
not very technical).<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Dave<br>
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