On 03/27/2012 01:08 PM, Piero wrote:
Hi Centos Team,
I was here the hard days in which CentOS 6 appeared would never appear, and then was CentOS 5.6 (maybe 5.7...do not remember well) that struggled to see the light and I was very afraid CentOS would not survive... but as I was worried in the past actually I'm very impressed of the speed of latest releases: what has changed? Just out of curiosity...
Thanks for your hard work and great product, Bye Piero
I can't speak to specifics, but I do know that upstream put a lot of effort into parring down what is in EL6. Their goal was to simplify and streamline support, and to allow them to focus on a smaller subset of tools to improve the support on those components still in the new release.
If I were to guess, I would say that this clean-up and slim down did a lot to improve the performance, as well as reduce the supported code base to such a degree that they could more effectively improve quality and performance.
My $0.02 guess.