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.
... and with systemd. (Score:3, Interesting)
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]
Re:Is this still a good OS for desktop? (Score:3, Interesting)
Use ext4 for a laptop over the default, XFS. XFS is prone to data corruption when improperly shut down.
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