Hello listmates, So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with that? Thanks. Boris.
Well I'm sure there are a lot of folks eagerly waiting..this is the latest I have seen which sums it up the best.... http://planet.centos.org/ e.g. it will be here when it is ready, I for one am hoping for an early christmas present....;) On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello listmates, > > So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, > or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no > mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with > that? > > Thanks. > > Boris. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101206/c4ac3d66/attachment-0002.html>
On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:> Hello listmates, > > So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, > or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no > mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with > that? > > Thanks. > > Boris.Hello Boris, According to the Rebuild/Release Process FAQ [1], a point release or update set should take 4-8 weeks to get out, +/- 2 weeks. A new major version is expected to take longer. Since RHEL 6 came out less than a month ago, it will be some time yet before CentOS 6 comes out. I'm sure the build team is working hard on it, but they're not going to release it before it's ready. If you need it sooner than that, you might want to look at RHEL. Regards, James [1] http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General/RebuildReleaseProcess
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello listmates, > > So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, > or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no > mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with > that? > > Thanks. > > Boris. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >It's still in the making with no ETA. Follow http://twitter.com/centos and http://twitter.com/kbsingh to stay informed.
On Monday, December 06, 2010 02:31:23 pm Boris Epstein wrote:> So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, > or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no > mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with > that?Karanbir has solicited help on the -devel list; I'm sure there are things that need doing that perhaps you could help with...... Having said that, if you just absolutely must run an EL6, Scientific Linux 6 is available in an early alpha (and I do mean early alpha); it may very well be that might fit your bill for something to 'try out'. In this regard, SL and CentOS have somewhat differing approaches; I understand and respect both approaches, and, as I've learned being the father of five children, ages 3 to 16, patience works wonders. So, even though I've pulled an iso of the SL6 alpha, I'm patiently waiting a stable, well-thought-out release of C6, whenever it's ready. Even if that were to be January, February, or March. SL6 is tentatively set for sometime around March 11 for final release: from the SL mailing list, Troy Dawson being quoted: "It is still too early to tell, but I think we can stand by our original guess, which was 4 months from RHEL's original release. As you put it, that would be March 11. Give us another month (mid-january) and I think we can have a more accurate timeline." I hope Troy doesn't mind my quoting him here. I'm one who thinks a Christmas _alpha_or_beta_ might be reasonable, but I really don't think a final release by then is reasonably doable, as long as the small group doing the work doesn't get quite a bit more help. Of course, I reserve the right to be wrong, but I like my CentOS stable, not early.
On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:14:44 pm Eero Volotinen wrote:> 2010/12/6 Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>: > > Karanbir has solicited help on the -devel list; I'm sure there are things that need doing that perhaps you could help with......> Can you point to the direct message? I might have some time to donate :)Start with http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2010-November/006018.html