[ale] CentOS 5.3 imminent release

[smcbrien at gmail.com (scott mcbrien)]

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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