>>> From what I've been able to gather from the list, as I'm not part of the >> dev testing team; there won't be an 'alpha' or 'beta', there will just be >> a final release 'when it's ready'. We aren't sure when that will be, but >> it will probably be within a few weeks after CentOS 5.6 is > > Thats spot on. > >> released. CentOS 5.6 will likewise be released 'when it's ready' and we >> don't know for sure when that will be, either. I would suspect that will >> be by the end of the month (Feb 2011) but I'm really only guessing. > > Just an update on that: I did the first 5.6 installs yesterday, there > are a few issues that still need resolving but i'd say this weekend the > distro should mostly be handed over to the QA guys, so we should see a > release by or before mid Feb. Ofcourse, this is based on no one finding > a 'blocker' issue in the process. So salt accordingly. I would rather get it when its ready then get it when its not ready... ;-) I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing?