Red Hat Releases RHEL 6

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."

Comments

Re:erode Windows server how?

[BrokenHalo]

If the parent wants a server, he could do worse than install Slackware. For many years I used this as my desktop distro (now I use Arch), but for servers Slack kicks ass. It is so simple to set up and maintain, you don't need to pay for support unless you are lazy or clueless.

Re:2000 packages? 85% more code?

[JohnVanVliet]

"If RHEL6 is "software you can weigh", then Debian must be "software designed to break your scale". :)"
then what is OpenSUSE ??? - a black hole .11.3 is so bloated that your neighbors kitchen sink is tossed in for good measure

Re:erode Windows server how?

[afidel]

And of course RHEL's support lifecycle looks pathetic next to Windows/AIX/HPUX (10 years) and Solaris (12 years).