On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Alain Péan alain.pean@lpp.polytechnique.fr wrote:
Le 21/07/2011 14:45, Always Learning a écrit :
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others:
kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm
Thanks Rainer.
The dilemma is whether to upgrade from 5.6 to 6.1 or stay with 5.x as more 5.x versions (5.8, 5.9, 5.10 etc. might be possible). For me the only negative aspect of 5.x is old kernel 2.6.18 whereas 6.x is 2.6.32?
The dilemna is for the CentOS developper team. Following the decision last January, it would be natural that the priority would be to release 5.7, as there are "millions" of existing systems needing to be updated, rather than releasing 6.1, where very few systems are already in production, and 6.1 updates are backported to 6.0.
So I fear that 6.1 will be postponed...
Whatever is done I can only thank the CentOS team for doing this work while taking an huge amount of heat.
IMHO, companies on the CentOS 5.x have just recently migrated to 5.6 and I believe there is a lot less pressure for them to go to 5.7.
However, CentOS 6.0 is the first release and most companies ignore those for a reason. That puts more pressure on releasing a 6.1 version which companies will actually consider using.
Just my $0.02