On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 09:34 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> Why isn't SL released yet ... why did Oracle only release it last week
>>> ... because it takes time and it is hard.
>>
>> Oracle released RHEL 5.6 on january 12th. Scientific Linux has a rolling
>> release since early february.
>
> Given that Red Hat released 5.6 on Jan 13th, its interesting that you
> say Oracle had their build out on the 12th.
I meant to say january 20th, another lapsus on my part:
http://blogs.oracle.com/linux/2011/01/oracle_linux_56_now_available.html
> And I think its also quite clear that we don't really give a rat's ass
> about what Oracle or SciLinux are doing.
Then Johnny shouldn't have brought it up, should he ? I was simply filling
in the facts.
For those without a LWN subscription, the discussion was mentioned on LWN:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/429364/d1bdc6e1e6e58d0b/
which, incidentally, is where I got that Oracle release date from.
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