Michael A. Peters wrote:
First I'd like to make sure I am not complaining about this delay between the RHEL and CentOS releases per se. I did not help in any way to make it happen faster and usually I don't mind having a three weeks gap between them. But I've noticed that we had two security related kernel updates from RHEL since the RHEL 5.3 release and there is no word on when it will be released or why is it taking so long.
You can buy RHEL you know. You can also get RHEL src.rpm for packages with critical security that impact you and rebuild them.
Or there is Scientific Linux (https://www.scientificlinux.org/) which has done the 5.3 release.
So, if this is really the case I'd suggest making some sort of campaign to raise money and provide the necessary resources in order to speed things up. If RH maintains the 4-6 month schedule it can happen again in less than three months.
Wow, I really must be out of the loop. New versions of RHEL every 4-6 months?
Damn. I left Fedora because their release schedule was too frequent ...
The Fedora releases change behavior wildly with each release. The point of enterprise versions is that they maintain backwards compatibility even if they add some new features.