Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Released 231
An anonymous reader writes: Today, Red Hat unveiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, with new features designed to meet both modern datacenter and next-generation IT requirements for cloud, Linux Containers, and big data. The new version includes Linux containers (LXC), which let Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers, improved MS Active Directory / Identity Management (IdM) integration, XFS as the default file system, scaling to 500 TB (additional file system choices such as btrfs, ext{3,4} and others are available), a new and improved installation experience, managing Linux servers with OpenLMI, enhancements to both NFS and GFS2, optimized network management, bandwidth, the use of KVM Virtualization technology and more. See the complete list of features here (PDF). CentOS 7 shouldn't be lagging too far behind due to recent cooperation between Red Hat and CentOS project.
Not a problem... (Score:5, Informative)
There are scenarios in which a meticulously backported base with few to no functional changes is valuable. That is the entire point of RHEL, to be able to have support lifecycle that more closely matches Microsoft or Unix offerings.
If you need more rapidly updating content, then a distribution like Ubuntu or Arch or Fedora is a better fit. Ubuntu LTS might be a decent approach for some. The good thing about this ecosystem is you can select an experience based on your needs.
Source RPMs (Score:5, Informative)
I was going to the FTP site to look at the sources [redhat.com], but apparently they have moved.
Current sources for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 have been moved to the following location:
https://git.centos.org/project... [centos.org]
That's a bit cool actually.
Re:People still use Red Hat? (Score:5, Informative)
Red Hat aims not only for stability in the sense of "not crashing", but in the sense of "doesn't change a lot within a major release", especially in the core libraries and language runtimes. Companies often like that kind of stability, because they have miscellaneous in-house or commercial software running on top of the base system, which has a habit of breaking when anything is upgraded under it. So within a major version, Red Hat carefully rolls out only non-ABI-breaking changes, e.g. by backporting bugfixes to previous major versions of libraries.
Re:People still use Red Hat? (Score:5, Informative)
BULL SHIT.
Redhat routinely changes shit horrendously within release. They removed the crmsh configuration and replaced it with a completely different configuration tool in RHEL6, breaking a bunch of shit. They do this continuously: upgrade software, change some shit around, deprecate old tools for new tools, and tell you it's improved.
crmsh was in tech preview. Red Hat never committed to supporting that. Pay attention to the support status of what you are deploying.
Re:... and with systemd. (Score:5, Informative)
I bet they'll have to support RHEL6 for many and many years as a lot of companies won't upgrade to RHEL7.
http://boycottsystemd.org/ [boycottsystemd.org]
Systemd is the new future toolbox for maintaining and running Linux: All major enterprise Linux distros are using or are about to use systemd. Sure, a few companies will delay their transition to systemd if they have a lot of custom stuff they need to change, but systemd just have so many new awesome features that most will embrace it with joy; systemd simply means faster and better maintenance, and being able to pack more services in each hardware unit.
Those who dislike systemd are just a tiny but vocal minority; they have also spend the last couple of years smearing named open source developers like Lennart Poettering and trash-talking systemd, instead of developing an alternative to systemd. As a group they accept how the most extreme voices against systemd are unopposed, meaning that all the swivel eyed loonies with their paranoid ranting have become spokespersons for them, resulting in that nobody wants to work with them. So not only are the systemd detractors a small group, but they alienate most of the potential developers they could have had.
The end result is that almost nobody works on alternatives to systemd. Critical software like "ConsoleKit" is bit-rotting, nobody tries to help upstream projects supporting anything else but logind, despite that eg. Gnome developers have warned about this for years.
Instead of helping KDE and Gnome supporting non-systemd systems, the systemd detractors just rant on how NSA/The Greys/Poettering are controlling Gnome and KDE, and that everybody should boycot them and use CDE instead.
Like it or not, systemd will be in any Linux distro of importance in the future. Sysvinit (and X) are on life support and will be killed off at first opportunity people get. Even OpenBSD are starting to clone certain parts of systemd, and there is no doubt that all BSD's will have their init-system upgraded to a modern version inspired/cloned from systemd in the upcoming years. It is simply that good.
Re:So CentOS will be out in 2016? (Score:4, Informative)
You are missing the whole point - the idea is that throughout the 7.x release the glibc (/ other software) version will not change, so in 10 years time your *current* software investment will still work, rather than being force to upgrade. Stability means not changing what is deployed *now* in the future. For many deployments this is crucial. If you do not need this form of long-term software stack stability, then, yes, RedHat is not for you - however there is no point criticising RedHat for a policy that is deliberately enforced for a good reason.
Re: People still use Red Hat? (Score:3, Informative)
Pacemaker (which provides crmsh) is a tech preview and unsupported in rhel. But don't let that stop you from blaming them for something that you know, is unsupported...
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