On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:21 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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. ---- totally appreciated - thanks Craig