On 05/06/2011 01:31 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux?
I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to rollout over summer, before Aug 1, we need to start regression testing now!)
I was once a WhiteBox Enterprise Linux user and switched to CentOS 4 without issue, and am assuming that I might need to do something similar if we decide to go this route.
Any feedback is appreciated!
We are getting fairly close to having a tree ready to send to QA. The goal for sending the tree is 10 May 2011. It might not happen before then, but it should happen within a week of that date.
Disclaimer: We may have something that fails to work and throws a monkey wrench in the plans ... but it is getting close.
I would expect once it is in QA that we can release in 2-4 weeks (maximum) from that point.
But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement date, and is much more mature at this point (IMHO).