[CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

Wed Jun 17 20:53:29 UTC 2020
Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>

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

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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>