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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2006-01-14
You know things do take time to actually be built. Considering KVM really wasn't in the kernel when 5.0 came out, you are pretty lucky to be even getting as much as you are. They do have a responsibility to not introduce a bunch of new crap that is buggy and crash prone. RHEL is suppose to be stable. You don't get stable using the most current releases. Also, much of the management stuff is just being completed. KVM really isnt too useful in the Enterprise until they get all the management stuff built. If you want recent, use Fedora 11. If you need more stable, use Fedora 10. Just realize that you are going to be upgrading every 6 months. I am not a developer, but even I know you get to choose either stable or recent, not both. Every OS, even Windows is like this.