On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote: > Le 21/07/2011 14:45, Always Learning a écrit : >> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: >> >>> it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. >>> I see amoung others: >>> >>> kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm >>> redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm >> Thanks Rainer. >> >> The dilemma is whether to upgrade from 5.6 to 6.1 or stay with 5.x as >> more 5.x versions (5.8, 5.9, 5.10 etc. might be possible). For me the >> only negative aspect of 5.x is old kernel 2.6.18 whereas 6.x is 2.6.32? >> > > The dilemna is for the CentOS developper team. Following the decision > last January, it would be natural that the priority would be to release > 5.7, as there are "millions" of existing systems needing to be updated, > rather than releasing 6.1, where very few systems are already in > production, and 6.1 updates are backported to 6.0. > > So I fear that 6.1 will be postponed... Whatever is done I can only thank the CentOS team for doing this work while taking an huge amount of heat. IMHO, companies on the CentOS 5.x have just recently migrated to 5.6 and I believe there is a lot less pressure for them to go to 5.7. However, CentOS 6.0 is the first release and most companies ignore those for a reason. That puts more pressure on releasing a 6.1 version which companies will actually consider using. Just my $0.02 -- Giovanni Tirloni