Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:30:55PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> From my perspective: >> - 5.6 impacts existing installs >> - 5.6 and updates contain security issues >> > > This alone seems enough. The rest is frosting. :) > > A different perspective. RHEL-5, CentOS-5 no matter what point change is essentially obsolete. Thus the need for RHEL-6, CentOS-6 which are actually a couple of years late. How much has changed form 5.5 + updates to 5.6. How many existing systems will use the iso's instead of yum update. Iso's are primarily used for new installs. If I am making a new install, am I waiting for 5.6 or for 6.x? I had to leave CentOS for many of my systems a couple of years ago because it did not support the newer applications. So 6 fills a void currently painfully handled by Fedora instead of an enterprise class system. Bug fixes are needed by installed systems, they should be released as soon as the bug is fixed. Point changes are primarily a snapshot taken to speed up an install on a new system not to update a current system. Hubert