[CentOS] RHEL 5.3 Beta released, beta-testers needed

Wed Oct 29 16:00:45 UTC 2008
Michael Simpson <mikie.simpson at gmail.com>

On 10/29/08, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Mikael Fridh wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:36:35AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >
> > > Dag Wieers wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6002
> > > >
> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/channel/downloads/Download.do?cid=6007
> > > >
> > >
> > > Would be so much nicer if Red Hat also realised this [1] and made some
> > > of those beta isos public.
> > >
> >
> > I was really looking forward to testing this but when my download
> completes in
> > 3 hours I might have forgotten about it completely.
> >
> > I'm too used to 10MB/s local mirror speeds :/
> >
>
> Bringing down the barrier for people to test and report problems for RHEL
> Betas is something we have to discuss together with Red Hat. I discussed
> some of my wishes in an earlier blog post:
>
>    http://dag.wieers.com/blog/rhel-beta-test-sig
>
> but the dialogue has not taken place yet.
>
> I think this is one of those very profound win-win situations that we have
> to take advantage of.
>
> --
> --   dag wieers,  dag at centos.org,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --


As per the suggestion on Dag's blog i would be very happy to
participate in any sort of beta for 5.3. I don't have a RHN
subscription so my ability to get hold of the iso is limited but there
are a couple of features in 5.3 that would be of use for my company's
current projects
- so much so that we may be delaying a proposed roll out for them

If there was to be any sort of CentOS based testing effort then i
would like to throw my hat (and a dell 2950III) into the ring

best wishes

mike