On 06/16/2011 04:32 PM, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Denice wrote:
>
>> For those interested in esoteric data, I've extracted SL release
>> announcements from the mailing lists and have recorded them in a
>> spreadsheet.  I have used mailing list archives which I saved, so
>> the data may not be complete or entirely accurate.
>>
>> See:
>>   http://trshare.triumf.ca/~deatrich/all/sl/
>
> I see that x.6 releases seem to take longer than other point releases.
>
> I suppose that this may be because of how TUV makes changes during a
> life-cycle e.g. that the x.6 release is their last chance to sneak in
> support for new-hardware which then makes things harder for the sl wizards
> to beat into shape...
>
>    -- Jon

SL 5.6 is late for two reasons

1 - We had RHEL 6.0 (a major update), RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 4.9 all come out 
in a short period of time.
2 - The installer gave us trouble.

Troy
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