My understanding of the CentOS build process is that they take the src RPMs from Red Hat's RHEL distro, remove the trademarked and copyrighted content and compile new binary packages. Am I reading this right that 5.3 is not based on RHEL 5.3, but instead F9? I know Red Hat has backported features and fixes into the 2.6.19 source fork of the RHEL kernel, I thought that CentOS would be using the same sources...<div>
<br></div><div>-Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
For those waiting with baited breath for CentOS 5.3, please go use mouthwash.<br>
<br>
However, it looks like CentOS 5.3 may make release this weekend. If I<br>
understand the upstream notes correctly (unlikely but hopeful), it is<br>
based from the Fedora 9 environment with kernel patches back to 2.6.19<br>
or thereabouts for recent hardware. This also should provide a<br>
forward-looking environment for a stable desktop similar to F9 with<br>
the library structure of F8.<br>
<br>
Get yer bittorrents ready...<br>
<br>
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