Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Released

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 2, 2009 @08:07AM from the progress-continues dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The fourth update in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family is released. From the press release — this version includes kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) virtualization, alongside of Xen virtualization technology. The scalability of the Red Hat virtualization solution has been incremented to support 192 CPUs and 1GB hugepages. Other updates including GCC 4.4 and a new malloc(), clustered, high-availability filesystem to support Microsoft Windows storage needs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This article covers the upgrade procedure for RHEL 5.4 from the previous version."

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CentOS 5.4 in 3..2..1... by BestNicksRTaken · 2009-09-02 08:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Well actually 2-4 weeks it seems:
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22004&forum=37
Assuming no devs disappear or go on honeymoon ;-)

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torrents by ultrabot · 2009-09-02 08:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Start seeding those torrents!
No, wait...

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Re:Linux Distro Flamewar in by CannonballHead · 2009-09-02 09:03 · Score: 4, Funny

As a coaster?
Re:XFS by larry+bagina · 2009-09-02 09:58 · Score: 5, Funny

you could just store everything on /dev/null. It's faster than xfs and only slightly less reliable.

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