Ralph Angenendt wrote on 12/31/2010 08:44 AM: > 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. The sheer volume would seem to be a good enabler and reason to have a more robust and open development process. > 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. No reason I can see that alpha/beta releases should have to go to all the mirrors, nor even that it would be desirable. Torrents for the ISOs (as Timo Schoeler suggested) and perhaps a one or a few servers for direct ISO downloads (and possibly packages trees) would suffice. Phil