[rhelv6-list] RHEL7 Beta?

[Leon Fauster]

Am 04.06.2013 um 02:58 schrieb MJang <mike at linuxexam.com>:
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 10:02 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>> I know the answer is "it will be released when its ready" but does 
>> anyone have any insight on a release time frame for the RHEL7 beta? All 
>> of the stuff I've seen online says 1H13, but I was wondering if that was 
>> still true (since we're running out of 1H!), or if the F18 delays pushed 
>> it back some.
> 
> My original understanding, based on what came out of the Red Hat summit
> in '12, is the same as yours, which suggested that RHEL 7 would be based
> on F18.
> 
> Wild guess -- the basis for RHEL 7 was affected by the problems around
> F18. I note Alan Cox's negative review of that release, ref
> https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts/aCiB7kTLXTh . 
> 
> i.e., I'm guessing that led to some reassessment within Red Hat. It's
> easy to find bugzillas related to RHEL 7 alpha, which suggests (to me)
> that Red Hat might want to base RHEL 7 on F19.
> 
> Vague memories, something similar happened in the F12/F13 timeframe,
> before RHEL 6 beta.
> 
> That suggests a RHEL 7 release sometime in Q1 2014.


Here an overview of the actual releases: 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#History



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