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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Today, Red Hat unveiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, with new features designed to meet both modern datacenter and next-generation IT requirements for cloud, Linux Containers, and big data. The new version includes Linux containers (LXC), which let Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers, improved MS Active Directory / Identity Management (IdM) integration, XFS as the default file system, scaling to 500 TB (additional file system choices such as btrfs, ext{3,4} and others are available), a new and improved installation experience, managing Linux servers with OpenLMI, enhancements to both NFS and GFS2, optimized network management, bandwidth, the use of KVM Virtualization technology and more. See the complete list of features here (PDF). CentOS 7 shouldn't be lagging too far behind due to recent cooperation between Red Hat and CentOS project.

2 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. Re:People still use Red Hat? by armanox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stable is the word you are looking for.

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
  2. Re:People still use Red Hat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    BULL SHIT.

    Redhat routinely changes shit horrendously within release. They removed the crmsh configuration and replaced it with a completely different configuration tool in RHEL6, breaking a bunch of shit. They do this continuously: upgrade software, change some shit around, deprecate old tools for new tools, and tell you it's improved.

    crmsh was in tech preview. Red Hat never committed to supporting that. Pay attention to the support status of what you are deploying.