First Look at RHEL 5 - From the New, More Open Red Hat

Susie D writes "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and providing the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects."

CentOS

[Anonymous Coward]

Let the recompile begin!

Re:$349.99?

[stratjakt]

It is Free. You need a capital F there, bub. Doesn't that make you feel better?

You get to test and develop it for free, and they get to sell it to you for Free.

Na naaaa, na na na na na naaaa....

[sammy baby]

Okay, someone look at the official announcement... er, official "thank you" page [redhat.com] for RHEL 5, and watch the embedded video.

Then tell me someone at Red Hat hasn't been playing too much Katamari Damacy.

Eh?

[Penguinisto]

...just install it w/o Runlevel 5 coming on by default, just like 99.00000% of sysadmins do w/ RHEL.

(now if'n you can get Vista to install w/o a GUI, well - that I've gotta see...)

/P

Re:Screenshots, who cares?

[daves]

perl -i -p -e s/id\:6\:in/id\:3\:in/ /etc/inittab

You really should install vim. It doesn't take that much room.

Re:Any reason to switch?

[rubycodez]

yeah, we have that production server & desktop vs. "free/bleeding edge/risky where we develop everything" version in the Ubuntu world, too

we call that one Debian