I am waiting on the Centos 5.3 downloads to install!
However, I will be updating a few servers....
Red Hat version 5.3 released
Summary
Red Hat 5.3 features virtualization improvements, support for Intel's Core i7 architecture, and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun.
Topics
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 became globally available on Wednesday, with the new enterprise OS featuring virtualization improvements, support for Intel's Core i7 architecture and inclusion of the Open Java Development Kit from Sun.
When interviewed in October 2008, Red Hat global chief executive Jim Whitehurst said virtualization was one of the company's key priorities. "Virtualization should be part of the operating system, not a separate layer," he said at the time.
Virtualization in RHEL 5.3 has been improved, including the ability to make larger virtualized machines — supporting up to 32 virtual CPUs and 80GB of RAM — in x86-64 environments. RHEL is currently used to run a number of large virtualization instances, including Amazon's elastic computing cloud, known as EC2.
RHEL 5.3 also includes support for Intel's latest chip architecture, Core i7, code-named Nehalem. Released in August last year, Core i7 is the successor to Intel's Core 2 Duo architecture.
Finally, RHEL 5.3 includes the Open Java Development Kit, an open-source implementation of Java SE 6 supported by Sun. This inclusion is intended to support Red Hat's Java application server, JBoss.
This story was originally published on ZDNet Australia.
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Christian_<><21st Jan 2009 -
RE: Red Hat version 5.3 released
Now you get to spend even more time looking for
individual packages, checking their versions, going to
the package's website, try to find the download link,
download the source, then open up a terminal window,
type some cryptographic commands to extract the source
and guess which options it needs to compile cleanly,
then let the system install the files in whatever
random directory it feels like, then search for that
directory and run the file just to have it segfault
and lead to a kernel panic.
No matter how many upgrades linux makes they still
have to go through all this trouble and hassle to get
it running. Just say no to linux.
Loverock Davidson21st Jan 2009 -
Same old crap from......
Loverock. Linux is too complicated for someone of his inexperience and overall lack of knowledge. No kernel panic, no segfault etc. He doesn't understand that the Linux of today updates as easily as Windows. Just say no to Loverock!
todbran@...21st Jan 2009 -
Its not that
its that linux isn't worth the hassle of running and administering for the reasons given. Don't blame me because it was poorly coded, you need to take that up with Linus.Loverock Davidson21st Jan 2009 -
Update everything with a package manager
# yum update -y
setatakahashi@...21st Jan 2009 -
package management
This is the killer app.
One command to update, install, and remove software.
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Slight 2nd place:
Monitoring of computers and their status on a webpage -- install software from a www interface -- what computers are out-of-date, etc
bcmoore8721st Jan 2009 -
Except!
Except that the repositories can not be trusted from which the package managers get their files assuming the servers are even up and running because they are always getting pwned and are down for months at a time. Weekly hacks and cracks? You would be crazy to trust it.Loverock Davidson21st Jan 2009 -
Negative
Give Mr. NEGATIVE some Prozac, might change the crappy perspective just a
teeny bit. "two men looked out from prison bars, one saw mud and the other
saw stars."
bigpicture21st Jan 2009 -
How many times do you think you have to prove you're an idiot, Rock?
We get it. You're a moron incapable of thinking a single thought MS hasn't etched into your psyche. We know that.
You'd be funny if you weren't so tedious.
Henrik Moller21st Jan 2009 -
None
Since I'm not an idiot I don't have to prove anything. I just let my skill set do the talking for me and thus far has proven itself over and over again.
Here is the funny part, I didn't mention MS at all but yet you still brought them up. Feeling a little envious are you?Loverock Davidson21st Jan 2009 -
Idiot
Anyone who says "I'm not an idiot, IS AN IDIOT!!!bigpicture21st Jan 2009 -
storm14k21st Jan 2009 -
another nail in M$ coffin
the V day is inching closer!
Linux Geek21st Jan 2009 -
LOL
You are a joker
shellcodes_coder21st Jan 2009 -
I Could Not Agree More...
Considering the growth rate of any Linucks Distro and Linucks in general as a whole, yeah looking over that last two decades, you bet. Linucks is moving up. Now at a whopping 3% in over twenty years and with Microsoft screwing the pooch by making anyone with a PC more productive than the Nix users, gosh you have a flipping' valid point.
With Microsoft blundering things up, and looking at the historical growth rate of Linucks, yeah buddy, in about 300 years, Microsoft will have a valid competitor.
Unfortunately, anyone reading this post of yours, or mine for that matter, won't be around to see it.
I have a few favorite devices, guess what, none of them work in the latest Ubuntu Distro, not one of them. But yet when I plug them into my Windows Box, or my Apple Mac Pro, they work great. My iPhone, my iPod, my Palm, my... I think you get the picture.
Linucks is a niche OS, that's the the plan and design of the antiquated C code the kernel is written upon.
This is a short section, which is a good thing. I'm not going to bother with the "omg linux has no gamez!!1" stuff here because that is pretty much given knowledge.
I mentioned this briefly up there: Installing software. Aside from stand-alone binaries, your only option is to compile from source if you want to use an application that isn't available in the repositories or .deb packages.
I only attempted to compile two programs from source: LinuxDC++ and a Quake 1 sourceport known as TyrQuake. LinuxDC++ was only partially successful; I got the program up and running, but ran into snags when I attempt to run it through the GUI or making a shortcut for it in the GNOME Menu.
It wasn't until after all of this that I realized it was in the repositories all along. Meanwhile, TyrQuake was an outright failure. Compilation would halt, leaving it unfinished.
I had no idea what was going on. Thankfully, someone sent me some TyrQuake binaries and those were the ones I used to play the game. There simply isn't much documentation on this stuff, and any that do exist are rather vague.
I would also like to mention that there was absolutely no way I was getting any decent multimedia functionality on my own if it wasn't for the how-to I linked above.
Here's what really killed me: Gapless playback. I love my music and, being a big fan of Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, and owning various live albums, seamless playback between tracks is an absolute must. Well, nothing I tried works. I have used several Linux music players including (but certainly not limited to) Exaile, RhythmBox, and Banshee. Not even the evidently "Godly" Amarok could satisfy my hunger for gapless playback, no matter what settings I tried. According to the Internet, gapless playback is essentially ignored in Linux. However, there is one thing: Music Player Daemon. MPD is the only Linux audio player that provided gapless audio playback.
This isn't a proper "media player" per se, but instead a sound server used to host playlists for access through local networks. Several GUI frontends exist for it, but none of them really have a full featureset expected of a dedicated music player.
So, what did I do? I installed foobar2000. Yep, that's right, no native Linux application provided true gapless playback.
Instead I had to resort on running a native Windows application through a virtual Windows environment using Wine and even then it performed better (aside from slow startup and global hotkey access) than any native Linux music player. Herein lies a problem, I believe.
I'll stop here... Linux sucks, plain and simple. It should be a niche OS, and of course, it will stay there in the dark.
Kromaethius21st Jan 2009
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