On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:40 +0000, Sam Trenholme wrote: > This is just a heads up that 3.8 does not look ready to download. > There are 3.8 files at the CentOS mirrors, but the files (including the > iso images) are constantly changing or disappearing. It looks like > the hard-working diligent CentOS workers are making some last minute > changes before getting CentOS 3.8 out the door. I presume that > there will be a posting made to this list when 3.8 is ready--I hope > this doesn't end up like 3.6, when the files are uploaded but not a > peep on the mailing list nor webpage that a new 3.x release of CentOS > has been made. > > I know most people are probably using 4.x, but I prefer 3.x because I know > the software on this release is guaranteed to be present in any more > modern Linux distro (maybe as an updated version); CentOS 3.x is the > oldest codebase being currently maintained for any free Linux > distro. > > - Sam Sam ... we will announce when it is ready :) You mean this for 3.6 (pretty sneaky how we hide that stuff in the announce list :) : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-November/012349.html ------------------------------------- For a reason why things are changing ... look here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2006-August/msg00072.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202446 There is no working rescue mode on the upstream el3u8 right now ... there will be one on CentOS-3.8 before we release. Hopefully someone appreciates the effort we take in testing our releases and not just rubber stamping it out the door like some of the other rebuild projects. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060824/8617f8e2/attachment-0005.sig>