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Netstat -vat by Sean Michael Kerner (bio)

A command line view of IT



Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 hits Beta

By Sean Michael Kerner on October 29, 2008 10:01 AM
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From the "but where is RHEL 6?" files:

Red Hat is out today with a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3. If I'm not mistaken this should be the last major update to RHEL before the release of RHEL 6 which should come sometime in 2009. RHEL 5.3 adds a long list of enhancements to Red Hat's flagship Linux distribution.

Among them are virtualization enhancements to support up 126 CPUs. RHEL 5.3 also gets the new NetworkManager functionality which improves both wired and wireless networking. As a bonus Red Hat is also improving SELinux for NetworkManager audit. (It's not clear to me at this point if this directly related to the secTOOL effort that is in the upcoming Fedora 10 release.)

According to Red Hat's release notes, Window interoperability is also improved in this beta release.
Rebased samba from 3.0.28 to 3.0.32 which supports Windows Vista and 2008 and various fixes for DC functionality (interoperability with Citrix and Domain trusts)
The RHEL 5.3 beta is the third incremental update from Red Hat for RHEL 5.x since the original release in March of 2007. RHEL 5.1 beta appeared in August of 2007 while RHEL 5.2 beta came out in March of 2008.

Red Hat expect that the beta testing period for RHEL 5.3 will continue through Jan 6, 2009.

Personally I have heard very little so far about RHEL 5.x's successor, RHEL 6 (though I always ask). It's likely that the upcoming Fedora 10 release will showcase some of its early features. We'll have to wait until 2009 to know for sure.

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anonymous said:

The best way to preview RHEL 6 is to look at Fedora 9. Each major RHEL release is a previous Fedora release with lots of bug fixes. When RHEL 6 is released next spring, Fedora 10 will not have been around long enough to be the basis for RHEL.

October 30, 2008 10:54 AM
Alexander said:

I believe that RHEL 6 will not be based on Fedora 9, but on Fedora 10 or 11.

Also I wonder why there's so long current release cycle for RHEL... Web Development software is too old in it (when using standard repositories)...

January 10, 2009 10:24 AM

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