Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Mar 2008 17:58 UTC
Red Hat "Sure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is a stable distribution, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't change and improve - even inside of release cycles. Case in point is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 now available as a Beta. The 5.2 release is the second incremental release since RHEL 5 was released in March of 2007 (RHEL 5.1 Beta appeared in August of 2007). With the 5.2 release Red Hat is adding virtualization enhancements including the ability to handle a 64 CPU system. Additionally the critical 'libvirt' technology which helps to manage the virtualization instances now gets remote management support."
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Red Hat wasn't there
by h3rman on Wed 12th Mar 2008 21:48 UTC
h3rman
Member since:
2006-08-09

I missed you guys at CeBIT in Hannover last week.
Any people out there affiliated with Red Hat that can explain what the motives were not to go there?
Just curious.
Love your OS, RHEL 5.2 won't shock the planet but 5 has disappointed very few since it came out.

Edited 2008-03-12 21:59 UTC

RE: Red Hat wasn't there
by gilboa on Sun 16th Mar 2008 09:54 UTC in reply to "Red Hat wasn't there"
gilboa Member since:
2005-07-06

... but 5 has disappointed very few since it came out.


I can't say that I agree.
I find RHEL to be far better (both RHEL/server and Cent5/desktop) then RHEL4.

Any particular reasons for the disappointment?

- Gilboa

RE[2]: Red Hat wasn't there
by h3rman on Sun 16th Mar 2008 18:09 UTC in reply to "RE: Red Hat wasn't there"
h3rman Member since:
2006-08-09

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I meant the opposite, very few people, I think, were disappointed with RHEL 5.
RHEL 5 is great.
It's my main system for both server and desktop (well, CentOS that is, 100% binarily compatible of course).

RE[3]: Red Hat wasn't there
by gilboa on Mon 17th Mar 2008 10:48 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Red Hat wasn't there"
gilboa Member since:
2005-07-06

Oh OK.

P.S. I share your problem. While RHEL5 is an excellent server distribution (and we use it for testing and production), CentOS is a far better workstation/desktop distribution.

Having no OpenOffice (and huge chunks of KDE missing) in the RHEL5 "server" is very annoying. (And our purchase department rather no get the "workstation/multi OS" SKU)

It would have been nice if RedHat would have retained the "Desktop" software channel.

- Gilboa

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by gilboa on Thu 13th Mar 2008 20:33 UTC
gilboa
Member since:
2005-07-06