“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.”
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
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
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).
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
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-March/msg00000….
– Gilboa