[CentOS] RHEL 5.6 is out

Fri Jan 14 16:14:36 UTC 2011
Cia Watson <ciamarie at my180.net>

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:11:20 -0500
Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net> wrote:

> On Friday 14 January 2011 05:45, Mister IT Guru wrote:
>
> >  I assumed that this would be the case! Made me realise how much
> > faith I have in the CentOS volunteers. Every time I've heard of a
> > RHEL release, I brace myself and think "WooHoo - CentOS in three
> > months!" Is this how other CentOS users feel when they hear a RHEL
> > announcement?
> 
> NO!  This is a volunteer effort.  You cannot expect them to have the
> newest release out days after it is announced.  There is work that
> needs to be done before they can release the OS as CentOS.  They do
> what they can when they can.  After all it s free so why complain?
> 
> You could always learn how to help them get the newest release out
> there if time is such an important issue.

He did say 'CentOS in three months', and given that as I recall 5.3 to
5.4 took 2 months and 5.4 to 5.5 took about the same amount of time, 3
months hopefully isn't unrealistic? If it is, maybe someone could or
should put out a call for more volunteers? Of course 6.0 may end up
being more than 3 months after upstream release, but time will tell. 

Cia W