On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:23 -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
While SL and other distributions are perfectly fine for almost all uses, there's a certain irony in the fact the single advantage of CentOS is the ease of converting from it to a paid/supported RHEL installation, and the RH changes that make the rebuild difficult are driving people away.
This sounds as if RH is responsible for not yet released CentOS 6 ? What did I miss ? What changes do you talking about ?
AIUI: In previous releases, RH distributed source + patches. Starting 6.0 RH releases patched source. This makes backing out a patch, or backporting patches from future development in Fedora (e.g.) far more nightmarish than before.
Also AIUI, it appears the (undisclosed) RH build environment changed significantly, such that generating bit-for-bit identical binaries (a CentOS objective) requires mind-reading RH folks by CentOS folks (aka reverse-engineering the undisclosed RH build environment).
These two square wheels make the CentOS wagon a bit slower than before.
I would appreciate an answer to one related question.
Will CentOS release CentOS 6.0 as a production release?
I see three possible answers: yes/no/TBD.
Thanks, Mike