Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS
p2pnet.net News:- With the arrival of Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS, the software will for the first time fully support the Linux 2.6 kernel.
The launch currently is scheduled to coincide with the Linuxworld Conference & Expo in Boston next month, a spokeswoman told the IDG News Service.
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (RHEL 4.0) will be the most significant upgrade to Red Hat’s Linux operating system since October 2003, when the company released version 3 of the product,” says the story.
“RHEL 4.0 will include new versions of the wide array of open source software products that are included in Red Hat’s Linux distribution, but the most significant enhancements will come from the Linux 2.6 kernel — the core component of the operating system that performs its most basic functions. Most significantly, version 4 will include a rewrite of Linux’s I/O subsystem, which manages the transfer of data between components on the computer, as well as a new version of the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) hard drive partitioning software.”
Ottawa-based open source consultant Russell McOrmond says he believes with the split of the past Red Hat Linux into RHEL and the community based Fedora Core, Red Hat now has additional time to get its software stable before release.
“While other distributions have had 2.6 based kernels earlier than RHEL,these distributions didn’t have the benefits of having both a well tested enterprise release as well as a community release,” he says, adding:
“I manage both Fedora machines on my own LAN, as well as RHEL boxes on remote colocations. While it’s not ‘leading edge’, I’m far more satisfied with RHEL than I was with the past commercial support of RedHat (pre-split).”
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See:-
most significant – Red Hat readies Enterprise Linux update, IDG News Service, January 14, 2005
