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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Released

Posted by simoniker on from the how-enterprising dept.

OrenWolf writes "CNET is running an article on the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, which is Red Hat's shiny new 'enterprise' version of Linux. Major changes include more IBM Mainframe support, support for AMD64 (x86_64) processors (aka Opteron, Athlon64 and AthlonFX), changes to support options, integration of Stronghold Apache, and much more."

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  1. Threading by herrvinny · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The scalability of the threading has gone from being able to support 1,200 to 32,000 threads. The impact on Java is just amazing," said Brian Stevens, vice president of operating system development at Red Hat. "That was probably the most significant engineering effort and the most profound impact on customers."

    Excellent. Multiple concurrent downloads of lots and lots of pictures, if you know what I mean....

  2. Re:Important question by rjamestaylor · · Score: 3, Funny
    Does it come with a SCO license?
    No, but it does have a copy of a SCO Invoice overlayed with Alan Cox's raised middle finger...

    ;^)

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  3. Re:Gee... by LDoggg_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no webserver in WS.

    Hmmm... if only there was a website where you could download a free webserver that would work on linux.

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