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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."

6 of 228 comments (clear)

  1. Re:erode Windows server how? by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows Server Licenses do not include support. There is your price difference.

  2. Re:directory Server ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In my not so humble opinion 389 is by far the best LDAP server. http://directory.fedoraproject.org/

    389 is based on the old Netscape directory server (AKA NDS/IPlanet) code.

  3. Re:erode Windows server how? by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Redhats "support" is pretty bad if you don't get the super-ultra-deluxe package or whatever it is called. It's India based email support and often times they don't really understand the question, they just seize upon a couple of keywords and respond back with various kb articles on those keywords. Worthless IMO.

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  4. Re:Still the gold standard of long-supported relea by arkane1234 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Code doesn't always run on the same box.
    If you have something in prod on a certified OS with a certified install environment, if the hardware dies you re-install the certified OS ecosystem on the new hardware.

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  5. Re:Still the gold standard of long-supported relea by TheLink · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some hackers might find security holes in the software you use (e.g. apache, bind, php etc).

    Then if Redhat still supports it, you get your RPM updates from them.

    Saves you the hassle of getting RedHat's SRPMs, backporting the patches, compiling, testing, fixing/working around any probs, rolling out the RPMs to your internal RPM updates repo.

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  6. Re:erode Windows server how? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Those price numbers are way out of line...

    List prices:
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server = $349 for self-support and 2-sockets with 1 virtual guest.
    Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard = $1029 for 5 CALs (User or Device, chosen after purchase), 4 sockets with 1 virtual guest.
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server = $1,598 for standard support and 4 sockets with 1 virtual guest.
    Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard = $1607 for 10 CALs + 2x(5 CAL), 4 sockets with 1 virtual guest.