Johnny Hughes wrote: >On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 20:14 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > >>Once upon a time Friday 03 March 2006 8:08 pm, Alain Reguera wrote: >> >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I've been reading the CentOS's FAQs, and saw this: >>>How long will CentOS-4 updates be supported? >>>We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012. >>> >>>Would someone tell me what will happen after that? >>> >>> >>you upgrade to a newer version >> >> > >Correct ... > >That is when the upstream provider stops doing updates ... so we also >stop doing updates as well. > >The entire CentOS-4 distro would then move to the vault >(http://vault.centos.org) > >By that time ... in 6 years ... there should be a CentOS-5 and CentOS-6 >and CentOS-7 active (based on an 18 month release cycle ... that is >dependent upon the upstream provider). > > > Regarding this, I know that CentOS 4 corresponds to RHEL 4 and CentOS 5 will correspond to RHEL 5, etc, but what do the minor version mean? As far as I am aware, there is no RHEL 4.0, 4.1 or 4.2. Also, you mention that the release cycle is 18 months. When does that put the scheduled release for version 5?