On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote: > 2011/2/28 JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>: >> Any word on approximate release date of Centos 6? >> >> Cheers, > > Scientific Linux already released version 6. take it and then upgrade > to centos, when it is available .. Re-install, not upgrade. Components with the same name compiled for different systems will occur, and may wind up presenting fascinating incompatibilities. I've written tools to turn an RHEL 5 box to CentOS 5, and back. It's a pain and I don't recommend it.