On 02/11/2011 06:00 PM, Larry Vaden wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from the
>> meeting here[1]:
>>   http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=8&sessionId=1&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=106641
> Troy,
>
> Ewan's URL says, in part:
>
> • 5.6 release history:
> – RedHat released RHEL 5.6 on 13-Jan
> – CERN released SLC 5.6 on 20-Jan
> – FNAL released SL 5.6 last week
> • CERN rolled out SLC 5.6 on desktops and central systems around 28-Jan
>
> Is this correct or incorrect?

That is a question of definition. For SLC, most of the packages that 
make up SLC5.6 have been released, but the installer is still in 
testing. In that state it is almost 5.6, but it is not yet called 5.6. 
For SLC everything is 'rolling', the individual minor releases are not 
maintained as such, so there is no way to stay with eg 5.3 and only get 
security updates for it. That is a feature of SLC (watch for the 'C'!).

HTH,

Matthias

> (read: my curiosity is killing me based on what I read here.}
>
> My presumption is that non-government use of SL is permitted if not
> welcome;  feel free to correct me on that.
>
> As an ISP using CentOS, we'd like to migrate to SL if we are welcome to do that.
>
> kind regards/ldv
>
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