On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Craig White craig.white@ttiltd.com wrote:
On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither is perfect.
That's interesting. So how is it they've managed to come out with 6.1 (and so long ago at that)?
I got the impression that the reason owes to the fact that Scientific Linux is using a koji build server and had it up and running perhaps even before the 6.0 release.
http://lwn.net/Articles/446556/
But in truth, don't trust what the non-invested people might speculate to be the reasons, the real answers can only come from the developers themselves.
And note that one of the SL developers has taken a position at Red Hat, so things might be different in the future.... http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=897