Niki Kovacs schrieb:
Les Mikesell a écrit :
I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes.
Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special mistake. Do you prefer we'll-release-next-week-whatever-that-may-break ? In that case, stick with Ubuntu Server.
It's good to have a fixed date to work towards. Otherwise, you get feature-creep, where more and more stuff goes into the release but never stabilizes. FreeBSD does it pretty well - they never release on-time, but at least they work towards the dates and clearly push stuff back one or two minor-releases when they see that they can't stabilize it. CentOS OTOH has a fixed feature-set (that of the corresponding RHEL release) that it must complete. So, necessarily the release-date is more or less open.
If you have 500 boxes, you are not going to update them all on the same day that RHAT releases 5.x anyway.
Rainer