Red Hat EL 4.0 Released

diegocgteleline.es writes "As it has been noticed by some news sites, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 has been released. RedHat's web site doesn't seem to have any reference, but with Red Hat being probably the most used distro in the enterprise and featuring for first time a 2.6 kernel, this is a major milestone for linux in the server arena. There're already some reviews."

Linux 2.6

[Turmio]

I hate to disappoint you, but Linux 2.6 used in RedHat 4 enterprise distributions hardly makes it a major milestone in the Linux server arena. Enterprise Linux distributions with Linux 2.6 kernel is not exactly a ground breaking thing. SUSE LINUX Enterprise 9 [novell.com] featuring Linux 2.6 was released many months ago. Also the 2.4 kernel used in the 3 series of RedHat enterprise distributions isn't quite vanilla 2.4. It contains already many, many features backported from Linux 2.6.

A couple things...

[Ayanami Rei]

1) Fedora-like desktop. Of particular note: memory keys are auto-mounted thanks to dbus/HAL support and udev

2) Ability to use selinux MAC and auditing

3) New versions of OO, gimp, gtk, moz out of thje box...

4) Aaaand... there's not much else that stands out. Most stuff that works on 3 will work on 4 and vice versa, maybe requiring a SRPM re-build. It looks pretty much the same, still bluecurve with some tweaks. Not that it doesn't look good.

Re:The Relevancy of RedHat

[fm6]

By far RedHat's biggest failing IMO is the lack of support for ReiserFS - JFS and XFS would be nice for others, but the former is all I really care for.

Ah, but you don't need a journalling file system to run Oracle, do you?

Re:Call me when...

[ag0ny]

[...]but RHEL is still missing a few things:

-Xen or virtualization solution like VMWare, Virtual Server, Solaris Zones

Excuse me? We're using VMware Workstation here, running on a Fedora Core 2 host.

Do your homework and read the specs [vmware.com]. VMware has been running on Linux since ancient versions.

Re:The Relevancy of RedHat

[diegocgteleline.es]

for geeks it is not of value For enterprises it's the leader. Debian and Fedora don't give you support when oracle runs slow.

Re:Just to head off the kiddies....

[dtfinch]

All nice distributions, but all lacking good QA.

Wherever there is a demand for paid support, you'll find plenty of people and businesses willing to provide it. http://www.debian.org/consultants/ [debian.org]