On 04/28/2011 01:34 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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. I meant to say "IN QA" 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/20110428/2f45a3eb/attachment-0002.sig>