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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. Oh joy... by dbolger · · Score: -1, Troll

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

  2. Oblig. XKCD by jabithew · · Score: 0, Troll

    The scalability of the Red Hat virtualization solution has been incremented to support 192 CPUs and 1GB hugepages.

    Here.

    Yes, I know an enterprise solution needs good virtualisation more than flash, it's still funny.

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  3. Re:Debian still in the game? by rbanffy · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's great. Not only you pay Red Hat for it, you also pay them to negate your excuse to do minor upgrades.

    Oh boy... You will really need support when you upgrade from MySQL3 to MySQL8...

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