On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jay Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:23 -0700, MJang wrote: > > [snip] > >> >> "It was also guessed that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 might not come out >> for some time and that it would definitely not be based on Fedora 9... >> but probably Fedora 11, 12 or even 13." > > I used to love the old days of schedule speculation. But even more than > that were the old days of having to inform the backbone maintainers > before we released so they could be "prepared." > > Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity to offer a side trip with > this thread. What do people need/want in RHEL6? > > On the topic of not liking upgrades because software vendors aren't > keeping up, that's one of the huge advantages of our virt story. It > allows you the opportunity to utilize the latest hardware, but lay an > older release on top and (hopefully!) minimize the impact. We've even > done some testing in-house with the para-virt drivers which resulted in > higher performance on the virt guest than when the same OS was laid down > on bare metal. >
I need RHEL-1/2 to run under paravirt ;). Actually the biggest thing I would like to see is a RH supported/trained configuration management program (cfengine, bfcfg2, puppet). [And yes I think if you look the archives.. this has been a repeated request :)]. Having something that is 'locked' and 'vetted' would be very nice. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
