> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell > <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's not fun on the other side of this fence either. Being kept in >> the >> dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things. > > Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently released a > solid distribution. If I have to choose between an arbitrary release > date and a rock solid distribution, guess which way I'm going to go. > > I really think the best way to approach this -- since it appears to be > an issue every time there is a point release -- is to figure eight > weeks after the Red Hat release. Then you'll be pleasantly surprised > when the release is out sooner than that. Agreed with Ron. I used RHEL5.4, broke a bunch of stuff so I switched back to Centos 5,3. I would almost encourage that Centos waits for RHEL patch release to the kernel before they release it or bugs just get duplicated. Or does Centos do that already?