All, As much as I hate to ask, how is this project coming along? We are approaching the 4 month post-release point...
-David
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, David Brian Chait wrote:
All, As much as I hate to ask, how is this project coming along? We are approaching the 4 month post-release point...
-David
David,
Karanbir said on the Twitter account (and elsewhere) roughly 3 weeks after CentOS 5.6 gets released, and that will be hopefully by tomorrow. He says all but 30 packages are OK with CentOS 6, but 5.6 is their first priority.
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Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
Karanbir said on the Twitter account (and elsewhere) roughly 3 weeks after CentOS 5.6 gets released, and that will be hopefully by tomorrow. He says all but 30 packages are OK with CentOS 6, but 5.6 is their first priority.
Make that 60 packages + anaconda + mirror setups + yum policies: . http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-April/007301.html
Best regards, Mário Barbosa
Le 04/04/2011 18:53, David Brian Chait a écrit :
All, As much as I hate to ask, how is this project coming along? We are approaching the 4 month post-release point... -David
Hi David,
The last news given by Karanbir on his twitter account, an March 30, was that 5.6 was "mostly GA", and that "6 was not far"...
"the QA guys are having a quick look over the 5.6/ tree's now - mostly considering it GA grade now. http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/53082820612075520 5:15 AM Mar 30th http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/53082820612075520 via web "
See : http://twitter.com/centos
I don't know if QA guys found something wrong since...
Alain
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:53 -0700, David Brian Chait wrote:
All, As much as I hate to ask, how is this project coming along? We are approaching the 4 month post-release point…
-David
This reply is in no way directed at you personally David, I just picked your message to reply to :)
Such a simple statement, and yet so much list traffic!! I agree people should stop asking about when 6 will be ready. Also, stop asking about 5.6 and 4.9? *please correct my post if I'm wrong*
So many people interested in this 'release' date of an essentially free product. I think FOSS is unique in this aspect that it is an actual working product with a release date, and no actual income from the product. If I'm getting something free, I'm not going to pressure the dude who's giving it to me, because at any time, he can tell me to take a running jump!
If CentOS was a film, then hold the developers to account. If it is a console game, the same. But it is NOT. It is FOSS. Just be happy you have a pretty new version in your hands as it is.
If that still isn't good enough for you, then
"Use the Source .... Duke"
Grab LFS ebook as a jump of point, and get cracking, or pay RHEL for a frikkin' subscription and get all the latest binaries you want.
Personally I see all this chatter as people who wish to help with the "reverse engineer " process that out very generous devs are currently struggling through!
Your email address is in the public domain, we can contact you with tasks from the TODO list, and then once you've started to give your free time to that, maybe, just maybe you'll have earned the right to say ...
"When is it going to be ready!" Until then, be happy with the free goodness that is CentOS.
By the way, there is nothing stopping you compiling the latest and greatest code into the apps you need. After all, the skills that the devs are using - should every good SysAdmin and Linux Head be able to at least do something similar? At the end of the day as the devs of this, and many other FOSS projects say, "It'll be ready when it's frikkin' ready!" hehe!
And my final point *sorry, I had a liquid lunch, and feeling quite passionate about my favourite OS*
"What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?"
The packages that are contained within are available to everyone... already. Whatever feature you could possibly ask for, you can go an get yourself. If you are the type of person that likes bleeding edge on your server, then maybe CentOS is not for you. Fedora, and Ubuntu may suit you better.
A bigger number? :-)
On 4/6/2011 7:52 AM, compdoc wrote:
"What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?"
indeed
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Russell Jones wrote:
A bigger number? :-)
On 4/6/2011 7:52 AM, compdoc wrote:
"What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?"
indeed
Just newer kernel and newer core packages that can drive newer applications. CentOS 5.5 kernel and core packages are 3-4 years old in the (Linux) world that dramatically changed since then.
P.S. Please write your answers in the bottom/end of the letter, not at the beginning. It's common practice for a long time.
Ljubomir
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Just newer kernel and newer core packages that can drive newer applications. CentOS 5.5 kernel and core packages are 3-4 years old in the (Linux) world that dramatically changed since then.
I wouldn't refer to the 5.5 kernel as 3-4 years old as there are significant backports to the EL5 kernel such that 5.5's kernel is measurably different to 5.0, and even further away from 2.6.18.
jh
I am fully aware of it. But upgrades to the kernel are not the same as newer kernel. And "same" kernel with upgrades means same core packages that block using newer apps.
Ljubomir
John Hodrien wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Just newer kernel and newer core packages that can drive newer applications. CentOS 5.5 kernel and core packages are 3-4 years old in the (Linux) world that dramatically changed since then.
I wouldn't refer to the 5.5 kernel as 3-4 years old as there are significant backports to the EL5 kernel such that 5.5's kernel is measurably different to 5.0, and even further away from 2.6.18.
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On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 09:47:49 AM Mister IT Guru wrote:
I agree people should stop asking about when 6 will be ready. Also, stop asking about 5.6 and 4.9? *please correct my post if I'm wrong*
Yeah, no reason at all to ask about 4.9, since it's already released.
And reports show that 5.6 is rolling to the mirrors as we speak.
Yep, should reduce the traffic to the list.... or not.... :-)
On 04/05/2011 08:47 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote:
"What the hell is so special about CentOS 6?"
For me, that would be kernel version 2.6.32. I have hardware and software that needs a kernel a lot newer than the 2.6.18 kernel in CentOS 5.6. I would dearly love to get off the Fedora roller coaster. I'm experimenting with SL-6 right now, and so far it's looking very nice. What I learn from that effort should allow me to move to CentOS 6 pretty quickly once it becomes available.
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