On 02/05/2014 02:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Andras Horvath <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I know it's kinda too early to ask such thing, but based on TUV practices in >> the past, could someone tell which month we could expect the release of >> version 7? Based on that assumption, we could make something up about the >> possibility of the SL 7 release date. >> >> The question arised to me because I need to migrate away from a system on >> one of my workstation, and since I used Gnome 3 on Fedora for some time and >> I'm fond of it, I wouldn't want to go now with version 6, so I was thinking >> to pay for a standalone subscription for RHEL 7 and start using the beta >> right away. At least I could test and get familiar with it until SL 7 >> arrives. (Any hint on how stable it might be? :) >> >> Can we say, we can expect SL 7 before August? (adding up an estimated time >> from RHEL beta now to RHEL release + SL buld and test) > > As you pointed it out yourself, the answer largely depends on when > RHEL 7 comes out. In the case of RHEL 6, it took about 6 months from > the beta to the GA release. But I doubt even Red Hat knows exactly > when RHEL 7 will be released.
Also, don't forget about the recent announcement[1] that there is a possibility that SL7 is going to be a CentOS variant. Which means we may have to wait for CentOS 7 before the SL team really digs in and makes SL 7. That isn't for certain yet, I am just thinking that if it does go that way then there might be a greater time frame between RHEL7 and SL7. The point being, who knows how long it could be really. I bet even the core devs of RHEL/Scientific/CentOS don't have a good time frame yet; probably just est target dates which could easily slip. [1] See Connie Sieh's post in the email thread "Centos / Redhat announcement and Scientific Linux update" "The anticipated release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 presents an opportunity to consider forming/joining a CentOS Special Interest Group and producing Scientific Linux 7 as a CentOS variant. ... This is only being evaluated for Scientific Linux version 7." My advice is to just test the RHEL 7 beta while it is in public beta and go as far as you can with it. The more feedback now means a better product at release.
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