CentOS

[quote] toracat wrote: So, when CentOS had a [huge] delay, people say SL "beat" CentOS. When CentOS gets the release out in 2 weeks, they say CentOS "beat" SL. As far as SL is concerned there is no such race. I don't think SL would ever change its release process to "beat" other clones.[/quote] I un...

[quote] Hellboy wrote: Great work! I almost thought the CentOS project was gone and today version 6.2 comes out sooner then Scientific Linux.[/quote] You're not going to get much faster than two weeks. The developers must have been perfecting the automation scripts with 6.1. Not only did the release...

[quote] pjc123 wrote: [quote] pschaff wrote: Bets on CentOS-6.2 release date are now open. :-) [/quote] Unfortunately, by that time, the response from many people might well be "What is CentOS?" or 'I think I read about that in the "History of Linux" opening chapter of one of my technical books' (Oh...

[quote] nitrofurano wrote: The name CentOS sounds confusing, like it's a completelly independent operating system not related to Linux, like HaikuOS, ArOS, BeOS, OS-2, MacOS-X, etc. For me is very hard to try and divulgate a distro with this kind of name, when it's mistake inductive even on its own ...

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familyguy wrote:
Based on the 5.6 and 6.0 performances, my bet is 6-8 months after the official release of RHEL6.1...so sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2011. :-)[/quote]

With 6.1 security updates available for 6.0 (until 6.1 is released) does it really matter?

Thanks for clearing up my questions. You asked where I got the idea there was no root access -- it came from misreading or misunderstanding the following in the product description: [quote]Desktop Designed for task workers. Typically requires a limited set of applications. End user has limited admin...

Just got on the computer and saw the announcement on Distrowatch. Congratulations! Thanks for all the hard work. And since 6.1 security updates will be available before the release of 6.1, I no longer see any reason to delay installing 6.0. Great news.

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NedSlider wrote:
Ron,

You should ask on the Red Hat forums/Mailing lists as these are questions specific to Red Hat, not CentOS.[/quote]

Okay, thanks. I thought maybe someone here might talk to someone there -- or something like that.

[quote] 7looki wrote: 10、Then try to install something like this shell> yum -y install ntfs-3g Have a good time![/quote] I'm not running CentOS 6 -- will probably wait until 6.1 to install it -- but I went to RPMForge and tried to download the EL6 key and received a "404 Not Found" error. So maybe t...

This is just a curiosity question. Red Hat sells a "Desktop" version license for $49 a year and a self-service support "Workstation" license for $179 a year. From what I can see, the difference is that the Desktop version doesn't include a Super User account and doesn't come with the development lib...