I was wondering how long it would take to get the final release of RHEL6, talking with a client just 2 hours ago.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Brad Hinson <[email protected]> wrote: > RHEL 6 was released publicly today, and is available for download from > RHN (https://rhn.redhat.com). For more info, please see: > > http://www.redhat.com/promo/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux6/ > > > Here are a couple of selected bullets from the "what's new" link on the > page above.. > ---------- > > Scalability > * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 supports more sockets, more cores, more > threads, and more memory. > > Efficient Scheduling > * The CFS schedules the next task to be run based on which task has > consumed the least time, task prioritization, and other factors. Using > hardware awareness and multi-core topologies, the CFS optimizes task > performance and power consumption. > > Filesystems > * The new default file system, ext4, is faster, more robust, and scales > to 16TB. > * NFSv4 is significantly improved over NFSv3, and is backwards compatible. > * Fuse allows filesystems to run in user space allowing testing and > development on newer fused-based filesystems (such as cloud filesystems). > > System Resource Allocation > * Cgroups organize system tasks so that they can be tracked, and so that > other system services can control the resources that cgroup tasks may > consume (Partitioning). Two user-space tools, cgexec and cgclassify, > provide easy configuration and management of cgroups. > > ..plus much more. See http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/ for > more info on what's new. > > Thanks, > -Brad > > -- > Brad Hinson<[email protected]> > Worldwide System z Sales, Strategy, Marketing > Red Hat, Inc. > +1 (919) 360-0443 (mobile) > www.redhat.com/z > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
