on 6-5-2008 8:30 AM James Bunnell spake the following:
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 09:57 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
James Bunnell wrote:
I was in the #centos-social channel and simply stated that I noticed CentOS 3-4 were getting a lot of updates. I also stated that the CentOS 5 was one kernel behind, as in RHEL it is at -53, the gentlemen then told me that I was wrong and it was at -21. I then asked if there was a way to get a progress report somehow on 5.2, and that 5.2 has already upgraded that kernel. The result was that I was banned for being correct. I dont understand this kind of support.
You are NOT correct ...
The latest NON 5.2 kernel is:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.src.rpm
looks like -53 to me
The latest 5.2 kernel is:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.src.rpm
this is a new kernel as of today, may 22 compilation date
As far as being banned on an IRC Channel ... I am sure you were warned first. CentOS is manned by volunteers. If you want to argue with the people who are on IRC after they tell you not to, then you will be banned.
yes i was warned, however, can they not admit when they are wrong? and because its volunteers (like debian), all the more reason to be professional.
The CentOS project trusts the judgment of our forum moderators and our IRC ops ... if they ban you then you are banned. We are not a for profit company where you pay us for service and can be disrespectful to our employees. You will instead have to be polite in your disagreements.
i have been polite for weeks. i finally had a enough of being polite and just being told, 'it will be release when its ready.' that is not a professional answer. is it too much to ask for an update?
If this is a problem, I suggest that you find a paid for service contract where you can be rude to the people with whom you interact.
i do pay for rhel. i made the mistake of converting to centos. damage is done. on the next major upgrade, i will return to rhel and will not professionally recommend centos either privately,personally, or in the realm of a business. thanks for seeing my side of the issue and not jumping on the elite bandwagon. i am done.
No wonder you were banned on #irc. I personally am more than happy to wait. I came here from Whitebox linux, and it is even slower there. One person is doing what the entire team is doing here. I also know that if I am in that big of a hurry, I can down the src rpms and start building... But I won't.
Johnny, Karanbir, Russ, Seth, Dag, Jim, Donavan, and every one else on the team that I most surely missed... You do a bang up job, and our thanks go to your tireless and mostly unpaid contributions to this project! If I have to wait a week or a month for a new release... so be it. The security updates are what is most important, and those come very quickly.
Again ... Thank you all!