On 05/06/2011 01:31 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community > on their experiences using Scientific Linux? > > > I'm a long-time Centos user, and am basically happy with CentOS. I > understand there are delays getting EL 6 out. We have been long anxious > to roll out EL 6 as soon as it's ready, but our time window for rollout > is looming and we will need to act. (for business reasons, we need to > rollout over summer, before Aug 1, we need to start regression testing > now!) > > > I was once a WhiteBox Enterprise Linux user and switched to CentOS 4 > without issue, and am assuming that I might need to do something similar > if we decide to go this route. > > > Any feedback is appreciated! We are getting fairly close to having a tree ready to send to QA. The goal for sending the tree is 10 May 2011. It might not happen before then, but it should happen within a week of that date. Disclaimer: We may have something that fails to work and throws a monkey wrench in the plans ... but it is getting close. I would expect once it is in QA that we can release in 2-4 weeks (maximum) from that point. But the real question is, do you want to use EL6. I personally would only roll out testing stuff on EL 6 at this point (be it SL 6.0, Oracle UBL 6.0, RHEL 6.0, etc.). CentOS 5 still has 3 years of normal support before its retirement date, and is much more mature at this point (IMHO). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110506/d1dd6a05/attachment-0005.sig>