Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Released

OrenWolf writes "CNET is running an article on the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, which is Red Hat's shiny new 'enterprise' version of Linux. Major changes include more IBM Mainframe support, support for AMD64 (x86_64) processors (aka Opteron, Athlon64 and AthlonFX), changes to support options, integration of Stronghold Apache, and much more."

Important question

[Rick Zeman]

Does it come with a SCO license?

Threading

[herrvinny]

"The scalability of the threading has gone from being able to support 1,200 to 32,000 threads. The impact on Java is just amazing," said Brian Stevens, vice president of operating system development at Red Hat. "That was probably the most significant engineering effort and the most profound impact on customers."

Excellent. Multiple concurrent downloads of lots and lots of pictures, if you know what I mean....

Re:Important question

[rjamestaylor]

Does it come with a SCO license?

No, but it does have a copy of a SCO Invoice overlayed with Alan Cox's raised middle finger...

;^)

Re:Red Hat's movin' on up

[Anonymous Coward]

I own stock

Dude, that is so 1999.

Re:Red Hat's movin' on up

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, right, ok Nostradamus.

Stronghold Apache rocks!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a game, right?

Re:Red Hat's movin' on up

[thedugal]

Well, about 3 threads up threads up there is a nice conversation about how you can download the enterprise rpms for free (compliance with GPL). Whats interesting is that the thread typically devolves into a discussion on how they are "legally" (sorry guys it aint legal) pirate the RHE cds. So, with friends like these, who needs enemies.

If Redhat stays afloat it will be because geeks talk their managers into using linux for the price and then over the course of years, Redhat slowly starts attaching more and larger price tags to its products and services. I'd still be quite wary of investing a large chunk of change in RH. I sure as hell wouldn't put my kid's college fund in there.

Only version 3?

[Trejkaz]

Hah! Debian has been on version 3 for ages! ;-)

Re:Gee...

[LDoggg_]

There's no webserver in WS.

Hmmm... if only there was a website where you could download a free webserver that would work on linux.

Yay, Linux version 3

[pasi]

So this means we will get even more lamers in IRC asking for "Linux version 3". I wonder how they plan to explain moving from Linux 9 to Linux 3, shrug.

(troll? yes ma'am)

Re:Yay, Linux version 3

[nmaeone]

Geeeeeeeze, you obviously didn't RTFA. Uh, it's all about "Linux Version 3.11 For Workgroups".