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June 17, 2008

Linux's CentOS version 5.2 is basically the same as Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5.2, assembled by the CentOS team, but without Red Hat's usual branding. It's now almost ready for its release. "We are currently in the progress of doing QA testing."

"All packages have been built. The current plan is to be able to finish all QA test this week so we might be able to release v. 5.2 sometime next weekend," said Steven Rosenberg, product manager at Red Hat Inc.

Some industry observers say this is significant since it will be bringing some up-to-date versions of popular applications to the RHEL-CentOS team.

Up until now, Linux desktop users of RHEL-CentOS have had to be content with Firefox 1.5 and OpenOffice 2.0.

While Fedora 9 didn't properly suspend/resume on some Gateway Solo 1450 laptops, some are still holding out hope that RHEL-CentOS 5.2 will, since greater laptop compatibility is one of the strong selling points of this significant new RHEL-CentOS release.

So while the people at Red Hat may be downplaying any aspirations they have on the desktop (!) this new release shows that they aren't relying on Fedora 100 percent for desktop users, many of whom are not anxious to do a major upgrade every six months or so...

Among the biggest changes: Firefox ver. 3, which hasn't even had its final release yet, and Open Office 2.3, which has a lot of people talking.

Recently, CentOS has been offering a live CD and a small network installer image in addition to the full set of CDs and DVD.

Source: Red Hat.

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