[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Stephen John Smoogen]

2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 04:06 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> There's no lead time for your own local development and testing.  You
>> would never expect one of the old RH X.0 releases to be production-ready
>> but the new releases would have new kernels, libraries, and utilities so
>> you could incorporate their features in your own work, which was likely
>> to proceed at approximately the same rate as the distro evolved toward
>> stability.  With Centos you don't get anything to work with and test
>> ahead of time, and if you'd tested on an earlier Fedora there may or may
>> not be any relationship.  A side effect was that the community of RH
>> users that reported/fixed bugs in the X.0 got something for their effort
>> in being able to continue using the updated release instead of being
>> abandoned as a wildly new X.0 came out.
>
> 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 was wrong about why CentOS has not done Beta's in the past. So what
can be done about getting the src.rpms for the next set of beta's
(4.8/5.3) on the ftp servers when they are ready to be previewed?



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Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
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