Star Red Hat 4.5 Boasts Enhanced Kernel, Clustering
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2007 22:30 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Red Hat "Red Hat today released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, featuring a 2.6.9-55.EL kernel paravirtualized for i686 and x86_64 machines. RHEL 4.5 also provides NFS performance metrics and updated kernel support for Infiniband connectivity, according to the release announcement."
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RE: Good move redhat
by simo on Fri 4th May 2007 07:34 UTC in reply to "Good move redhat"
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2006-01-09

Redhat couldn't have made a much smarter move than updating RHEL4 with a paravirtualized kernel. This will allow businesses using RHEL4 to seamlessly upgrade to RHEL5 by hosting RHEL4 virtual machines under RHEL5.


Erm, no. You could always run RHEL 4.4 as a virtual machine under RHEL5, the virtualised kernel means you could run RHEL5 as a virtual machine under RHEL4.5

4.5 is really so people who have a real need to stick to RHEL4 can gain some features of RHEL5.

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