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". :) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
