On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Todd And Margo Chester
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is it just me or did CentOS beat us to 6.2?  (Now that is humiliatin' !)

There is no such thing as "beat"ing. Let me quote my own post I placed
in a CentOS forum a while ago (with minor adjustment):

"There seem to be people who feel there is a "race" between CentOS and SL.

SL has always been following their routine of going from Alpha (1 or
2) -> Beta (1 or 2) -> RC (1 or 2) -> GA. Each release is separated by
1-2 weeks. So, it typically takes 2 to 3 months for them to do the
final release. This time scheme is not a problem for SL users because
security updates are made available in a timely manner (similar to the
CR repo by CentOS) and they have been doing this exercise from day one
(back in 2003??).

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."

Glad I had a chance to re-use the message in the SL mailing list as well.

Akemi