[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Ralph Angenendt]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>> CentOS should be putting out betas that match the RHEL betas so that you
>> can get access to it before the release.  Use Fedora as the technology
>> driver, use Betas as the bugfix cleanup for platform issues, and
>> eventually you get the "Enterprise" release.
> 
> I think the major problem with CentOS putting out beta's in a timely
> basis is that a large amount of time is getting the build resources
> together AND then deciphering various build variables that RHEL uses
> so that the CentOS binaries 'match' close enough to be bug for bug
> compatible. The time to do that basically had a CentOS-5beta out at
> the time that RHEL-5 is finalized.

Not having publicly available SRPMs for the beta versions (meaning 
available via public ftp) might be another reason. 

Ralph
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