On 04/28/2011 01:18 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:25:26 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> >> >> >> Dear developers, >> >> I don't care for reasons, arguments, or flamefests. I need to plan my >> workload. >> >> By now I have half a dozen servers overdue for reimaging. I can put this >> off for another week or two, but not really much longer. >> >> There's obviously no point in installing centos 5 on any new machine. > > I am not so sure about that. If you need the machine up today, install > 5.6 on it -- you can always upgrade later. If you want bleeding edge > software install Fedora Core 14. Otherwise sit tight. Hassling the > developers is not going to make CentOS 6 show up any sooner. > > I know that if I needed a server up this week or next week, I'd go ahead > and install CentOS 5.6. (And I would have installed CentOS 5.5 back > before CentOS 5.6 was released.) > CentOS-5.x has an EOL data of March 31, 2014. I deploy new 5.x servers all the time. 3 years is half of the useful lifetime of the distribution. But, if people have to make a decision and deploy within the new 2 weeks, then I would not be waiting for 6.0 to be released during that time. We might have a tree with installable net images by then. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110428/c3222b5e/attachment-0005.sig>