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Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-about-a-test-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It was way back on 2006-09-07 when Red Hat released its first public beta of Enterprise Linux 5. Today, after more than three years, Red Hat finally releases its first public beta of its next-generation OS: RHEL 6 public beta 1. From the news release: 'We are excited to share with you news of our first public step toward our next major Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform release with today's Beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Beginning today, we are inviting our customers, partners, and members of the public to install, test, and provide feedback for what we expect will be one of our most ambitious and important operating platform releases to date. This blog is the first in a series of upcoming posts that will cover different aspects of the new platform.'"

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  1. Re:Showing its age by 6031769 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm. Would you care to explain what you think it is that CentOS would give you that RHEL doesn't?

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  2. Re:Showing its age by backwardMechanic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True. But Redhat put a lot of work into Linux, and I'm happy for my company to help fund those coders, so I buy RHEL licences.

  3. Too many Linux-incompatible-with-Linux distros by h00manist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be quite wonderful if someone could figure out a way to make packages installable easily on all linux distros, or at least create a few "compatibility profiles". This whole repository ubuntu-vs-debian-vs-redhat-vs-mandriva-vs-older-versions-of-same is a nightmare for newbie users.

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    1. Re:Too many Linux-incompatible-with-Linux distros by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Why do newbie users even need to care about that? If you pick a distribution that has a good set of packages, they should rarely have to leave the ones provided with it. Run whatever front-end for package management you've got, make sure all the optional repositories are enabled, and there should be so many packages there the hard part is sorting through them all--not finding even more. Particularly given that so many things that used to be run as local apps have moved onto web applications nowadays, the main headaches for Linux newbies I see is getting their hardware working and making Flash work.