Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1 148
An anonymous reader writes "It was way back on 2006-09-07 when Red Hat released its first public beta of Enterprise Linux 5. Today, after more than three years, Red Hat finally releases its first public beta of its next-generation OS: RHEL 6 public beta 1. From the news release: 'We are excited to share with you news of our first public step toward our next major Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform release with today's Beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Beginning today, we are inviting our customers, partners, and members of the public to install, test, and provide feedback for what we expect will be one of our most ambitious and important operating platform releases to date. This blog is the first in a series of upcoming posts that will cover different aspects of the new platform.'"
Too bad they gave up on XEN (Score:5, Informative)
We have an environment with AMD Opteron 270 based servers where we use virtualization heavily. We either have to give up on the servers or on RHEL 6. I think that we'll stick with EL5 until we go into a server refresh cycle.
Re:Too bad they gave up on XEN (Score:3, Informative)
They replaced it with KVM, but it still bears some stigmata in Xen community.
Re:Too bad they gave up on XEN (Score:2, Informative)
This was announced about a year ago...old news. They were always going to give up on Xen when they purchased Qumranet...makers of KVM and the SPICE protocol.
Re:Showing its age (Score:1, Informative)
better pricing
Direct download links (Score:4, Informative)
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/ [redhat.com]
Or torrent it:
http://www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/5568298/RHEL-6-Beta-64-Bit [torrentreactor.net]
Don't forget to check the sha1sum, which can be verified on the first address:
e0a3a906d7bbbc57b411a213bd5d6ad44d851689 RHEL6.0-20100414.0-AP-x86_64-DVD1.iso
Re:which fedora? (Score:5, Informative)
The packages mostly match those in Fedora 12, which makes sense as that came out in November and FC13 isn't released yet. However, they have bumped some things. Most notably, the FC12 kernel was 2.6.31, while RHEL6 uses 2.6.32. That's not surprising given a fair number of virtualization and performance features, as well as bug fixes, happened for 2.6.32 [kernelnewbies.org].
Re:which fedora? (Score:3, Informative)
I can confirm that. I was told by a guy from Red Hat recently that it's based on FC12 with some things from FC13 included.
Re:centos tracker! WAS Re:Direct download links (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too bad they gave up on XEN (Score:1, Informative)
You also must notice that Virtualbox has a couple of proprietary features that are only available if you pay them: Support for USB and RDP. This is the typical Sun open source business model, open source it but require copyright assignment to all external code contributions, so that Sun can release an alternative version with propietary addons (which even the external contributors have to pay for)
Not to interrupt your kicking of a dead horse, but according to Wikipedia Innotek adopted this business model before Sun bought Virtualbox. It was previously an entirely proprietary product.
Re:Why the KVM vs XEN dispute? (Score:4, Informative)
The Citrix stuff had little to do with it. Th Linux kernel developers favor code that is easy for them to integrate and maintain, and KVM fit better into that model than Xen. There are some situations where it performs quite a bit better too, and frankly few people care about those stuck with processors that don't have the right extensions to use KVM. Some good reading on the background here includes Discover the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine [ibm.com], Linux: KVM Paravirtualization [kerneltrap.org], and The truth about KVM and Xen [codemonkey.ws].
Re:Why the KVM vs XEN dispute? (Score:3, Informative)
Actually I didn't quite understand if the favored linux virtualization code switched from xen to kvm because of Citrix buying xen and messing with the project, or some other reason.
KVM is Linux, XEN isn't Linux. Redhat is a Linux vendor so prefers Linux over things that are not Linux.
It's not a matter of one being better than the other but a matter of picking one that's closer to what you already know.
Re:Showing its age (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Showing its age (Score:5, Informative)