Today CentOS announced 5.3 release. Now we know the delay between RHEL and CentOS releases. RHEL GA 5.3 was released on 20.01.2009. It took more then 2 months for CenOS team to clone new system.

If this is isn't April's fools news :)

"Why pay for RedHat RHEL if there's CentOS?" somebody may think.

One of the answers is here. Just check it out - most of the vulnerabilities RedHat fixed during one day. For example, "Non-Browser" applications (e.g. Samba, Sendmail, OpenSSH, Gaim, evolution) had 16 issues, with average fixing time 14 hours, and 94% of issues were fixed during one day. (Read more...)