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Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 6.2
LEADING LINUX VENDOR Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2.
Red Hat's RHEL has become one of the most popular enterprise Linux distributions, with many multi-national corporations using it to power servers and workstations. A year after the firm introduced RHEL 6.0, it brought out RHEL 6.2 promising better performance and improvements to high availability, storage and file system performance and identity management.
Although Red Hat is keen to promote its SAP benchmark figures, many will be interested to hear that it has updated system resource management, which is particularly important as companies run ever larger numbers of virtual machines. According to Red Hat this now allows customers to set up service level agreements on service delivery, similar to quality of service (QoS) on networks.
Red Hat also claims that RHEL 6.2 offers a 30 per cent improvement in some network throughput benchmarks, in addition to which the firm mentions lower disk read/write times for higher data throughput.
It reiterated that it expects to bring out a RHEL 6.5 beta in December, and says that development for RHEL 7.0 is "fully underway".
Popular RHEL-based Linux distribution CentOS is now two minor versions behind the Red Hat supported RHEL, with no release date confirmed. CentOS 6.0 was released eight months after RHEL 6.0, making it one of the most delayed releases in the CentOS distribution's history. And, with CentOS 6.1 still not available, it is likely that its lag time is not going to get much shorter. µ
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CentOS is NOT DEAD.
CentOS 6.1 release is done and syncing to the mirrors. CentOS 6 CR (which is all the updates for 6.1) was released 2 months ago.
And CentOS-6.2 will be released well before Scientific Linux ... count on it.
Thanks,
Johnny Hughes
CentOS Developer
Have a little faith, folks. The CentOS devs are working on it, and when they get the kinks worked out with the new RHEL dev process, it'll rock. In the meantime, I'm continuing to run (and trust in) CentOS 5 since it still works extremely well.
CentOS 6.1 should be out in the next few days from what I've read over at their forums. Supposedly they have set up things such that it will be much faster getting 6.2 done.
Erm, what? RHEL6.5 beta? After RHEL6.2 comes RHEL6.3 (beta). And given RHEL6.2 _just_ came out I seriously doubt there'll be a RHEL6.3 beta this side of February. Definitely not in (this) December.
What did you really mean?
The Scientific Linux devs are doing a much better job of keeping up with upstream changes in RHEL. I've now worked for three different companies who have jumped from CentOS5 to SL6 when upgrading their major releases over the last year. The CentOS dramas just aren't worth the hassle.
Scientific Linux 6.0 and 6.1 have both been released as Red Hat work-alike systems. Their 6.0 was out long before CentOS 6.0 was released and I'm sure Scientific Linux 6.2 will be out soon. There are claims that CentOS has something I see referred to as "bit-for-bit and bug-for-bug" compatibility and suggestions that maybe Scientific Linux lacks that but I never have seen what is meant. Is it just FUD? Thanks