OT: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5]
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Fri Nov 30 14:22:43 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 19:01 -0800, Robert - elists wrote:
> >
> > I think it's just too new and shiny. ccache is installed by default with
> > Fedora 8.
> >
>
> Wow, fedora 8?
>
> Where have I been?
>
> Sheesh, most of us are still dealing with considering centos 5 migrations
> from rock solid centos 4 "as necessary" eh?
>
> Isn't this fedora thing getting a little bit "cat outta the bag" or has
> there been a consensus of how many passing fedora's will make up a new
> "upstream release number?"
>
> Anyone care to share?
>
> - rh
RH has shared already.
Fedora is released on an ~6 month cycle [1].
RHEL is released on an 18/24 month cycle [2].
18/6=3 and 24/6=4
EL5 branched off from FC6 during the testing stage, so EL6 should
presumably be derived from Fedora 9 or 10.
For more info google:
fedora enterprise site:redhat.com
Phil
[1] http://www.redhat.com/magazine/019may06/features/fedora_rhel_1/
[2] http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/fedora_rhel_4/
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