Re: Speculation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 12:23:21 pm 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?

Heh, I was there in the room at LinuxFest NorthWest... IIRC, the only thing 
said definitively was that RHEL6 wouldn't be based on Fedora 9. Beyond that, 
it was just pure speculation w/o knowledge of any hard time-tables at the 
time what RHEL6 would be based off of. Schedules have firmed up since then, 
but I don't know what's public and what's not, so I'm just gonna keep my 
mouth shut...

I believe the reply to release date inquiries back in the Red Hat Linux days 
was "when its ready". :)

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Jarod Wilson
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