2010/12/26 R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org>: > My last post here noted that Red Hat ran a four month beta > program, AFTER their internal stabilization. My blog post > crossing 'planet.centos.org' made it clear that the CentOS > team simply are not much driven to respond to 'popular demand' > or press pressure, and more motivated to produce a durable > product. Before that my post here noted that it was unlikely > that few oterh than hard core developers who enjoyed pain > would ever be able to do a yum transition from 5 to 6, as 6 is > rather radically different 'under the hood' as to SELinux > model Mind you, CentOS is not building a new OS from scratch. It's a rebuild, so it's reasonable to assume that most of the painful work has already been done. That said, the subtle and unpredictable pains of SELinux and the trade-offs of simply disabling it and spending your security time on more gaping vulnerabilities, such as Subversion clients storing passwords in clear-text and SSH keys without passphrases, has been the subject of a lot of other threads.