CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors

Attraction? Maybe not. But speaking for myself it has definitely broken the trust I placed in it. At this stage I personally can't recommend CentOS as a viable RHEL alternative; there are just too many unanswered questions that remain.

In speaking with other sysadmins, CentOS's recent inactions have turned a lot of people away from it. Leaving the 5.x branch without updates for an extended period of time left a lot of people in the lurch. Taking far too long to release 6.0 ticked even more people off.

Perhaps now that 6.0 is out the door things will improve, but I'm skeptical. There's an awful lot of bug fixes and other errata in RHEL 6.0 today, perhaps too much for CentOS to keep up with. Do they plan to push all those updates anytime soon or do they intend to skip over them and get right to work on CentOS 6.1? Will that be out before RHEL 6.2 gets released? If it isn't, will they skip over updates for it too in order to push CentOS 6.2 out the door?

Just too many unanswered questions for me right now. If CentOS is able to get its errata up to date in the next couple of weeks, then push out 6.1 two months from now, then maybe they'll be on a track to catch up with RHEL and keep on some semblance of a schedule.