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Red Hat EL 4.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the hey-no-fair-lookin' dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "As it has been noticed by some news sites, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 has been released. RedHat's web site doesn't seem to have any reference, but with Red Hat being probably the most used distro in the enterprise and featuring for first time a 2.6 kernel, this is a major milestone for linux in the server arena. There're already some reviews."

2 of 88 comments (clear)

  1. Linux 2.6 by Turmio · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hate to disappoint you, but Linux 2.6 used in RedHat 4 enterprise distributions hardly makes it a major milestone in the Linux server arena. Enterprise Linux distributions with Linux 2.6 kernel is not exactly a ground breaking thing. SUSE LINUX Enterprise 9 featuring Linux 2.6 was released many months ago. Also the 2.4 kernel used in the 3 series of RedHat enterprise distributions isn't quite vanilla 2.4. It contains already many, many features backported from Linux 2.6.

  2. A couple things... by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) Fedora-like desktop. Of particular note: memory keys are auto-mounted thanks to dbus/HAL support and udev

    2) Ability to use selinux MAC and auditing

    3) New versions of OO, gimp, gtk, moz out of thje box...

    4) Aaaand... there's not much else that stands out. Most stuff that works on 3 will work on 4 and vice versa, maybe requiring a SRPM re-build. It looks pretty much the same, still bluecurve with some tweaks. Not that it doesn't look good.

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