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Red Hat Releases RHEL 6

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-kid-on-the-block dept.

alphadogg writes "Red Hat on Wednesday released version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. 'RHEL 6 is the culmination of 10 years of learning and partnering,' said Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of products and technologies, in a webcast announcing the launch. Cormier positioned the OS both as a foundation for cloud deployments and a potential replacement for Windows Server. 'We want to drive Linux deeper into every single IT organization. It is a great product to erode the Microsoft Server ecosystem,' he said. Overall, RHEL 6 has more than 2,000 packages, and an 85 percent increase in the amount of code from the previous version, said Jim Totton, vice president of Red Hat's platform business unit. The company has added 1,800 features to the OS and resolved more than 14,000 bug issues."

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  1. 2000 packages? 85% more code? by blair1q · · Score: 3, Funny

    RH6: software you can weigh...

    1. Re:2000 packages? 85% more code? by zAPPzAPP · · Score: 2, Funny

      I hope those 14000 bugs were found in the new code, or we're looking at about 16470 more to go.

    2. Re:2000 packages? 85% more code? by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nonono, 2000 is the year the packages were released. This is really RH6 :)

  2. 10 years for one version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chrome will be up to version 783 (beta) in 10 years!

  3. Re:Moron quasi journalists by codepunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    16 or 128TB of ram, I would call those java ready platforms.

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