When to update?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:45:48AM +0900, javajunkie wrote:
> > . Instead, take a look at CentOS. The new CentOS release
> > due out in a month or so is based on Fedora Core 6 and will be supported for
> > almost a decade.
> Hmm, it's not based on FC6 but rather RHEL5.

Yes, and RHEL5 is based on FC6. Judging from the beta, *very* based-on.

> As for the seemingly suspicious view of CentOS, they would argue they
> are actually helping.

Definitely.

> For instance, in the new RHEL5 beta, redhat is said to "take .fc6 stuff
> as is and used it (not necessarily compiled on their el5 builder" (quote
> from the centos list).  CentOS is trying to put a beta together with
> everything compiled on the el5 builder and of course finding things that
> need to be done to do that.


Exactly.

> I can't say in actuality if the information they are turning up is
> working it's way back to RH (in bug reports or whatever), but some
> people suggest it is and that such info will be eventually needed to
> turn out a final RHEL5.

Yes, there are bugs filed with Red Hat's bugzilla.

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