Just so you know, I believe almost all mirrors have 6.0 on their disks. On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote: > Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at ...> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > On 07/09/2011 05:23 PM, Edson - PMSS wrote: > > > I really like CentOS, but it is undeniable the delay in the release of > > > version 6.0. > > > > yes, we all clearly take that on board - I hope the changes we are > > bringing in helps clear that, and prevent this sort of a situation. But > > there are still lots of places for improvements, and over the next few > > months lets try and address all of those. > > > > - KB > > > Because I needed the 6.0 versions of dhcpd and named for some IPv6 testing > I was > doing, I grabbed Scientific Linux 6.0 right after it was released. I also > signed up for the SL mailing list. A couple of weeks ago (June 20th or so) > the > SL folks announced the availability of SL 5.6. I would interpret this as > the SL > team chose to work on 6.0 and left 5.6 for later while the CentOS team > worked on > 5.6 and left 6.0 for later. > > I have no insight into what level of support the SL folks get from their > sponsoring organization (CERN and Fermilab) but as far as I'm concerned > getting > the two releases out (5.6 and 6.0) was a dead heat between the two > distributions. This is especially true if you consider that the SL team > had the > benefit of the CentOS team's experience with 5.6. I mention this because > it > indicates to me that the CentOS process isn't broken. On the other hand, > if not > getting 5.6 and 6.0 out sooner gets more people involved in helping, it may > have > long term benefits. > > These are just my observations on two different teams working to release > the > same two releases. Carefully consider what changes you make to the release > process. Oh yeah, great job guys and, yes, I'll be moving the SL 6 boxes > and > VMs back to CentOS as time allows mainly because the community just isn't > there > for SL (most days the mailing list only has a dozen or so posts; most of > them > not very technical). > > Cheers, > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110710/da3e90f0/attachment-0004.html>