Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>:
> CentOS should be putting out betas that match the RHEL betas so that you
> can get access to it before the release. Use Fedora as the technology
> driver, use Betas as the bugfix cleanup for platform issues, and
> eventually you get the "Enterprise" release.
I think the major problem with CentOS putting out beta's in a timely
basis is that a large amount of time is getting the build resources
together AND then deciphering various build variables that RHEL uses
so that the CentOS binaries 'match' close enough to be bug for bug
compatible. The time to do that basically had a CentOS-5beta out at
the time that RHEL-5 is finalized.
Not having publicly available SRPMs for the beta versions (meaning
available via public ftp) might be another reason.
Ralph