On 12/31/2010 02:44 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > 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 In case the pressure for people to test CentOS6 pre releases wouldn't be a torrent sufficient? Just thinking. Timo