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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Released

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Oh joy... by mcrbids · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now I just have to wait for my office to upgrade, and I'll get to spend another six months in Dependency Hell!

    As a LOOOONNNNGGGG time RedHat user, what is this "Dependency Hell" that you speak of?

    Rarely, I'll run into a dependency failure when using lots of 3rd party repos. Typically I just try again in a day or two, to find that the 3rd party repo has "caught up" with the main branch and order is restored. And even in this case, I still have a stable system afterward, it's just not updated until the deps are satisfied.

    Sorry, but while deps were a royal pain back around RedHat 6.0 or so, since Yum/RHN came along, the deps problem has all but vanished for me. And if you are having deps problems with your 3rd party vendor, you need to look at your 3rd party vendor, not RedHat. If your 3rd party bothers to make RPMS and put up a repo (the latter is astonishingly easy once you get past the "build an RPM" part, which is usually just to use CheckInstall and your standard ./configure && make style packaging) then your deps problems should similarly all-but-disappear.

    Methinks your software vendors are lazy.

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  2. Hugepages by ultrabot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since it may not be obious to everyone what hugepages are, here's a link that may work out for you:

    http://lwn.net/Articles/188056/

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  3. Re:Python by Loconut1389 · · Score: 5, Informative

    They're trying not to break API/ABI. They will with RHEL 6.

  4. Re:Debian still in the game? by bconway · · Score: 3, Informative

    HP offers paid support for Debian in enterprise environments.

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