Re: Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

This kind of question always brings out a wide spectrum of replies.  I 
absolutely hate upgrades.  I'm just now getting around to upping from AS 
3 to AS 4.  18 months is too short a time period between upgrades, I'd 
rather see 60 months, but that's just my selfish wish.

I'm charged with building software for the many versions of RH I have on 
campus.  I even have to rebuild some software to accommodate minor 
kernel upgrades.  It's not an easy task, and it's very difficult to keep 
up with it.  A slower pace would be my preference.



MJang wrote:
> Folks, 
>
> I'm wondering when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be released. There
> are a couple of bits I've found in this regard.
>
> First, the old mantra was that new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> would be released every 12 to 18 months. 
>
> But based on Wikipedia's dates
> RHEL 3 = 10/22/2003
> RHEL 4 = 2/15/2003
> RHEL 5 = 3/14/2007
>
> It's been up to 25 months between releases.
>
> Based on this bit about Bill Nottingham's presentation at the 2008 Red
> Hat Summit, seems like we're about to see the beta for RHEL 6 - possibly
> based on Fedora 9 -
>
> http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/tracks/oss/fedora9_overview.html
> "Why wait to see what's coming in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6? You can
> see it now in Fedora 9. In this talk and demo, preview the upcoming
> features for future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases that are available
> today in Fedora."
>
> OTOH, there's this
> http://www.montanalinux.org/linuxfest-northwest-2008-scottsreport.html 
>
> "It was also guessed that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 might not come out
> for some time and that it would definitely not be based on Fedora 9...
> but probably Fedora 11, 12 or even 13."
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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