On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:59:10PM -0600, Hubert Bahr wrote:
A different perspective. RHEL-5, CentOS-5 no matter what point change is essentially obsolete. Thus the need for RHEL-6, CentOS-6 which are
Except for the whole "supported until 2014" thing.
actually a couple of years late. How much has changed form 5.5 + updates to 5.6. How many existing systems will use the iso's instead of
Many will for new installs / rollouts where network installs, cobbler, etc are not available to them.
yum update. Iso's are primarily used for new installs. If I am making a new install, am I waiting for 5.6 or for 6.x? I had to leave CentOS for many of my systems a couple of years ago because it did not support the newer applications. So 6 fills a void currently painfully handled by Fedora instead of an enterprise class system. Bug fixes are needed
Third-party repos provide *MUCH* of the functionality that Fedora provides; and don't bring the rolling target issues with them.
by installed systems, they should be released as soon as the bug is fixed. Point changes are primarily a snapshot taken to speed up an install on a new system not to update a current system.
People are going to continue to install 5 until 5 is EOL. That is still 4+ years out. And as such they need ISO sets available.
People, at least 2.5 million if the ip count that Karanbir has mentioned is accurate, use C5; expecting that all of them are going to leave 5 behind and use 6 is just silly. *Many* people are locked into a platform for the life of that platform. These are *existing* users, not those planning on migrating to 6 whenever it is available.
John