aurfalien at gmail.com wrote: >> 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. > Be specific, what "stuff" broke? > I would almost encourage that Centos waits for RHEL patch release to > the kernel before they release it or bugs just get duplicated. > Actually... duplicated bugs is intended. > Or does Centos do that already? > No, CentOS does not apply any patches that upstream doesn't apply. Glenn