Spiro Harvey wrote:
Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder.
I vaguely recollect that RH mentioned pushing out the (total) life cycles of a release from 5 to 7 years, or 7 to 10 or something like that.
Their lifecycle info is here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
But there's no mention of any changes on there...
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Current RHEL life cycle is in fact 7 years. Interesting, I remember hearing just the opposite - that they're about to reduce the life cycle from 7 to 5 years, since allegedly no one uses the same EL major release for more than 5 years. I mean, can you imagine anyone who used RHEL 2.1 up until less than a year ago?
Anyway, it's nice to see so many people have dumped Fedora for pretty much the same reason as I have, more than a year ago in favour of CentOS. And this was after almost two years of discontent with Fedora.