On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 02:44:00PM +0100, 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 For RHEL5 I have preferred CentOS as it stays more closely to upstream, but given the number of very special cases that need to be considered for the rebuild, I hope CentOS will catch all items that get reported by the open Sientific Linux devel/test cycle. (This won't be too easy...) regards, Florian La Roche