LWN: Comments on "Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64"

Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

cventers — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:39:42 +0000

Curious, what's the problem? I've successfully spun up some CentOS 5.5 instances from PXE on x86_64 recently.

Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

NRArnot — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:23:57 +0000

> many administrators will wait the next release like centos 6.0/6.1.

Not the target audience, who want stable and long-term support. These people won't be in any hurry at all to upgrade from 5 to 6. Existing deployments will continue to run 5.x for years to come. If they wanted to live near the bleeding edge they'd be running Fedora, or maybe Ubuntu.

They'll download 6, when it's available, for evaluation with a view to deploying it on new projects when they're familiar with it and happy that it's no less stable than 5. Mostly, they aren't in any great hurry.

For anyone who does want a free version of RHEL 6 right now, check out Scientific Linux 6. It's not exactly the same as Centos, because SL does make a few tweaks rather than exactly tracking RHEL. However, SL 6 will be close enough to RHEL 6 or Centos 6 for most initial evaluation and prototyping, if not for deployment.

Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

djzort — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:56:30 +0000

...and pxe booting based install is still broken with x86_64, we raised a bug with a fix for 5.5 - but it hasnt even been assigned.

*sigh*

Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

leemgs — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:40:43 +0000

Congratulation and thanks... maybe, many administrators will wait the next release like centos 6.0/6.1.

Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

jengelh — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:12:14 +0000

Though the horse is probably electrocuted by now.

Release for CentOS-5.6 i386 and x86_64

butlerm — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:57:21 +0000

Congratulations to the CentOS team for getting this out the door!