[CentOS] CentOS 6: what's the status?

[Connie Sieh]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Monday, December 06, 2010 02:31:23 pm Boris Epstein wrote:
>> So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now,
>> or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no
>> mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with
>> that?
>
> Karanbir has solicited help on the -devel list; I'm sure there are things that need doing that perhaps you could help with......
>
> Having said that, if you just absolutely must run an EL6, Scientific Linux 6 is available in an early alpha (and I do mean early alpha); it may very well be that might fit your bill for something to 'try out'.

We have released both a pre alpha based on rebuilds of the RHEL 6 Beta and 
a "alpha" based on the rebuild of the RHEL 6 released SRPMS.  The later 
was done this past friday.  It is a alpha and as such should NOT NOT NOT 
be used for anything other than testing.

  >
> In this regard, SL and CentOS have somewhat differing approaches;
> I understand and respect both approaches, and, as I've learned being
> the father of five children, ages 3 to 16, patience works wonders.
> So, even though I've pulled an iso of the SL6 alpha, I'm patiently
> waiting a stable, well-thought-out release of C6, whenever it's ready. 
> Even if that were to be January, February, or March.
>

SL believes in "release early" , "release often".

> SL6 is tentatively set for sometime around March 11 for final release:
> from the SL mailing list, Troy Dawson being quoted: "It is still too 
> early to tell, but I think we can stand by our original guess, which
> was 4 months from RHEL's original release.  As you put it, that would be March 11. Give us another month (mid-january) and I think we can have a more accurate timeline."  I hope Troy doesn't mind my quoting him here.
>
> I'm one who thinks a Christmas _alpha_or_beta_ might be reasonable, but I really don't think a final release by then is reasonably doable, as long as the small group doing the work doesn't get quite a bit more help.  Of course, I reserve the right to be wrong, but I like my CentOS stable, not early.
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-Connie Sieh