RHEL6 - Red Hat.Inc, a leading provider of open source solutions in the world, is proud to announce the availability of the final release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This release is awaited release of RHEL 6 which contains improvements and it's available for i386, AMD64/Intel64, System z, and IBM Power (64-bit).
However, Red Hat announced that this release will not provide support for Intel Itanium architecture. In addition, the POWER5 processor is no longer supported, only the Power6 CPU or higher who will have the support. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for many years as a mission-critical platform choice for many companies. Customers such as British Airways, Citi and NTT Communications has been a trusted partner in development platforms Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
"We are now entering the era of enterprise computing where flexibility, portability and interoperability is more important than ever. And today, we provide the necessary platform consumers. It has always been our focus."
"What we provide more open, more reliable and more comprehensive than other products on the market. In the future, this is a platform designed to deliver customers to the next generation of virtualization and cloud". - Said Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies at Red Hat, the press release.
New to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6:
- Improved graphical installer;
- Support for the new system files (EXT4, XFS, NFS, block discard);
- LVM enhancements;
- Better power management with PowerTOP and tuned;
- Increased PackageKit and yum package managers;
- Better support for clustering, with Corosync Cluster Engine;
- Increased security;
- Network packet labeling and support for IPv6;
- Suspend and resume functionality;
- Support for multiple displays;
- Nouveau video driver for Nvidia graphics card;
- Dukunga Internationalization;
- SC KDE 4.3;
- OpenOffice.org Office Suite 3.1;
- Mozilla Thunderbird 3;
- Mozilla Firefox 3.5;
- Apache 2.2.15;
- MySQL 5.1;
- PostgreSQL 8.4;
- Better documentation;
- Improved support for C + +;
- Improved Samba;
- Full support for KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine);
- Support Alternative PHP Cache (APC) for PHP;
- Addition of memcached.
Any distribution like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are more targeted to the commercial market, including mainframes, who enjoy technical support for 7 years after the release of Red Hat. A new version of RHEL is released fairly quickly and thus, users can upgrade version that is being used to the latest release for free. Red Hat is distributed into four versions of RHEL: RHEL AS (Advanced Server), RHEL ES (edge, economic or entry-level server), RHEL WAS (workstation) and Red Hat Desktop.
For those of you who are interested to try, can download RHEL 6 beta 2 here.
Download the RHEL 6.0 beta 2:
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