Since CentOS seems to be a sinking ship (RHEL 6.1 is out and CentOS 6.0 is no where to be seen), is anyone running Scientific Linux 6.0 on a Linode?

If so, any tricks to getting it installed (or keeping it updated)?

http://planet.centos.org

Centos 6.0 should be out in a couple of weeks. They will still be behind, RH has already released 6.1.....

Jeff

PS. I would also like a scientific linux option.

Me, too!

"a couple of weeks" puts it 7 months behind RHEL. Not the greatest track record.

Considering they said "a couple of weeks" in January, I'll believe CentOS 6.0 is out when it's actually out.

CentOS has really dropped the ball on this release, and their lame excuses (and the fanboys that go around apologizing for them) indicates to me that they are NOT a Enterprise class release (community or otherwise).

All of the bad press and end user reactions could have be avoided (or most of them anyways) if they would have dropped the arrogant developer bs and just be transparent about the progress and the problems they're having.

C'est la vie

http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa

Be sure to click the "next" button as well. It should be released on the 6th, barring any crazy issues found.

SL also doesn't have a 5.6 release out. CentOS asked their userbase via the mailing list/IRC channel if they wanted 5.6 first, or 6.0.. and so they shipped 5.6 first.

But, jump ship if you want..

So because it's on a calendar it's more accurate then when it was on Twitter (in January)?

http://twitter.com/#!/CentOS/status/23529648864366592

I would consider pretty much anything more accurate than Twitter. Twitter is a social networking tool, not press release repository.

Tell that to the Government of Canada, whose ministers (and prime minister) issue policy decisions via Twitter

Do they tweet them in two languages?

James

English and Bad English

Yaw you betcha!

that's minnesotan or yooper, ya hoser.

Dated Jan 7th. A few days later, Jan 12th, RHEL 5.6 was released.

Then, as mentioned, they asked their userbase which they would like first...


Just realize that SL still doesn't have a 5.6 release (which from what I can tell, is actually no where to be seen), and CentOS still doesn't have a 6.0 release (which should be released on the 6th).

Pick your poison, I guess.

I wonder if it was a typo, and they meant to say 5.6, not 6. There's a flaw in Twitter's design where you can't edit tweets.

This may be of interest to Scientific Linux users, I'm using Ubuntu at the moment but am now thinking of switching to SL after reading the comments here:

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/05/26/ ... al-Cluster

James