On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Monday, December 06, 2010 02:31:23 pm Boris Epstein wrote:
So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with that?
Karanbir has solicited help on the -devel list; I'm sure there are things that need doing that perhaps you could help with......
Having said that, if you just absolutely must run an EL6, Scientific Linux 6 is available in an early alpha (and I do mean early alpha); it may very well be that might fit your bill for something to 'try out'.
We have released both a pre alpha based on rebuilds of the RHEL 6 Beta and a "alpha" based on the rebuild of the RHEL 6 released SRPMS. The later was done this past friday. It is a alpha and as such should NOT NOT NOT be used for anything other than testing.
In this regard, SL and CentOS have somewhat differing approaches; I understand and respect both approaches, and, as I've learned being the father of five children, ages 3 to 16, patience works wonders. So, even though I've pulled an iso of the SL6 alpha, I'm patiently waiting a stable, well-thought-out release of C6, whenever it's ready. Even if that were to be January, February, or March.
SL believes in "release early" , "release often".
SL6 is tentatively set for sometime around March 11 for final release: from the SL mailing list, Troy Dawson being quoted: "It is still too early to tell, but I think we can stand by our original guess, which was 4 months from RHEL's original release. As you put it, that would be March 11. Give us another month (mid-january) and I think we can have a more accurate timeline." I hope Troy doesn't mind my quoting him here.
I'm one who thinks a Christmas _alpha_or_beta_ might be reasonable, but I really don't think a final release by then is reasonably doable, as long as the small group doing the work doesn't get quite a bit more help. Of course, I reserve the right to be wrong, but I like my CentOS stable, not early. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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