Re: [CentOS-devel] are there any chances to see finished CentOS6 in 2011?

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 02:44:00PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Am 28.12.10 10:37, schrieb Filip Bartmann:

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So why is CentOS development so closed? Why users can't have alphas, or betas of this distro and must use some other rebuild as Scientific Linux?

One of the reasons is the sheer volume. CentOS is in use (wild educated guess here) on a massively larger scale than SL is. Just getting out the

For RHEL5 I have preferred CentOS as it stays more closely to upstream, but given the number of very special cases that need to be considered for the rebuild, I hope CentOS will catch all items that get reported by the open Sientific Linux devel/test cycle. (This won't be too easy...)

regards,

Florian La Roche