[ale] CentOS 5.3 imminent release

Brian nym.bnm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 11:22:36 EDT 2009


CentOS is based on the RHEL 5.3 sources, no question.

However, the source for RHEL 5.3 comes from bits harvested from the
Fedora tree, in this case, a good share is Fedora 9 bits, with
backports and such as customer demand/support issues require.

bnm

2009/3/24 scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>:
> 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...
> -Scott
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For those waiting with baited breath for CentOS 5.3, please go use
>> mouthwash.
>>
>> However, it looks like CentOS 5.3 may make release this weekend. If I
>> understand the upstream notes correctly (unlikely but hopeful), it is
>> based from the Fedora 9 environment with kernel patches back to 2.6.19
>> or thereabouts for recent hardware. This also should provide a
>> forward-looking environment for a stable desktop similar to F9 with
>> the library structure of F8.
>>
>> Get yer bittorrents ready...
>>
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