Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Jul 2009 19:09 UTC
"Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which in my view is a lot more than a typical point release. Sure we're all waiting for the big RHEL 6 release, but there are some major changes in RHEL 5.4. The most obvious change is the shift to the KVM hypervisor (as opposed to Xen). Xen is still in RHEL, but with RHEL 5.4, Red Hat is signaling its intention that KVM (eventually) is to be Red Hat's preferred Hypervisor. It's a preference that Red Hat execs have indicated at multiple points this year and should be no surprise since Red Hat now owns lead KVM vendor Qumranet."
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2005-07-24
What's most annoying is that after including an 18 to 24 month release cycle promise in their sales material for every release from 2.1 through 5.something, Red Hat decided to simply ignore that promise, without so much as an explanation and/or apology. At 18 to 24 months between major releases, RHEL makes a decent XDMCP/NX server. But now, midstream, they say "Oh, it's going to be more like 36 months this time. That works out better for *our* business needs.".
Some parts are not so difficult to update from third party sources. Like OO.o. But how about Evince? Updating it to a later version is a source code dependency nightmare. Important business PDF documents which I know open just fine in later versions of Evince, fail to open for my users. And we were supposed to have had an upgrade path by last March.
Edited 2009-07-01 20:36 UTC