Am 28.12.10 10:37, schrieb Filip Bartmann: > So why is CentOS development so closed? Why users can't have alphas, > or betas of this distro and must use some other rebuild as Scientific > Linux? One of the reasons is the sheer volume. CentOS is in use (wild educated guess here) on a massively larger scale than SL is. Just getting out the isos for an alpha or beta or whatever will take at least a day to two for getting on all mirror servers. If you also want to have the packages, it even might take longer. Ralph