Once upon a time, Noam Bernstein <noam.bernstein at nrl.navy.mil> said: > Of course. My only question is whether the observation that the gap for CentOS 8 is indeed larger than we have come to be used to for CentOS 7. So, I took a look... and the answer is "it's not" (with a small sample set). I took dates from Wikipedia for RHEL and the archived release notes for CentOS. I didn't bother with the .0 releases (since that's a lot of new work anyway). Right now, CentOS 8 is far faster than CentOS 7 and 6 were at this stage. release RHEL date CentOS date days 6.1 2011-05-19 2011-12-12 207 6.2 2011-12-06 2012-07-24 231 6.3 2012-05-20 2012-09-30 133 6.4 2013-02-21 2013-05-21 89 6.5 2013-11-21 2014-02-26 97 6.6 2014-10-13 2014-11-15 33 6.7 2015-07-22 2015-09-05 45 6.8 2016-05-10 2016-07-28 79 6.9 2017-03-21 2017-04-05 15 6.10 2018-06-19 2018-07-03 14 7.1 2015-03-05 2015-10-11 220 7.2 2015-11-19 2016-02-19 92 7.3 2016-11-03 2016-12-21 48 7.4 2017-08-01 2018-03-21 232 7.5 2018-04-10 2018-10-30 203 7.6 2018-10-30 2019-01-28 90 7.7 2019-08-06 (didn't find release notes) 7.8 2020-03-31 2020-04-27 27 8.1 2019-11-05 2020-01-15 71 8.2 2020-04-28 2020-06-15 48 -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>