Re: Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:23 AM, MJang 
<mike-vaT7YMUrCNtYzD5mSbZInQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>


>From the RHEL website

         Date        EPOCH       Delta
RHEL-2 = 2002-05-17  1021615200  -
RHEL-3 = 2003-10-23  1066888800  45273600
RHEL-4 = 2005-02-15  1108450800  41562000
RHEL-5 = 2007-03-14  1173852000  65401200

Average Delta = 50745600.000 [ 587.333 days]

Going with the average delta, we have
  1173852000+50745600 = 1224597600.

That gives us a possible release date of 21 Oct 2008. Since
the Beta is usually open 4 months before release so beta would be open
21 Jun 2008.

Going with a larger delta we have
  1173852000+65401200 = 1239253200

That gives us a possible release date of 08 Apr 2009. The Beta would
then be out around December, and would be based off of an alpha release
of F10.

However, who knows.. we could see a Beta tomorrow.




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