On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > >>> Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility >>> and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither >>> is perfect. >> >> That's interesting. So how is it they've managed to come out with 6.1 >> (and so long ago at that)? > ---- > I got the impression that the reason owes to the fact that Scientific Linux is using a koji build server and had it up and running perhaps even before the 6.0 release. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/446556/ > > But in truth, don't trust what the non-invested people might speculate to be the reasons, the real answers can only come from the developers themselves. > And note that one of the SL developers has taken a position at Red Hat, so things might be different in the future.... http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=897 -- Les