From what I've been able to gather from the list, as I'm not part of the
dev testing team; there won't be an 'alpha' or 'beta', there will just be a final release 'when it's ready'. We aren't sure when that will be, but it will probably be within a few weeks after CentOS 5.6 is
Thats spot on.
released. CentOS 5.6 will likewise be released 'when it's ready' and we don't know for sure when that will be, either. I would suspect that will be by the end of the month (Feb 2011) but I'm really only guessing.
Just an update on that: I did the first 5.6 installs yesterday, there are a few issues that still need resolving but i'd say this weekend the distro should mostly be handed over to the QA guys, so we should see a release by or before mid Feb. Ofcourse, this is based on no one finding a 'blocker' issue in the process. So salt accordingly.
I would rather get it when its ready then get it when its not ready... ;-)
I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing?