Has anybody had a chance to play with the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0? Initial thoughts?
Almost; I run WBEL 3.0RC2 on a couple boxes at work. It's a pretty faithful clone of RHEL 3.0 without the trademarks or redistribution restrictions.
Especially curious about LVM. And if anybody
has tested the speed up with multi-threaded
apps and their new Native Posix Threading
Library?
Performance testing? No, not really. I've mostly been using it thus far as a desktop distribution. I'm told there are 13 dual xeon 3.0GHz machines waiting for me at the office this week to expand my OpenMOSIX testing onto, but then I wouldn't be using Red Hat's kernel SRPM's.
I *am* however using LVM on all of my machines. It works fine.
Note that Red Hat Linux 9 still has that terrible bug that make a large part of LVM useless; you cannot mount snapshots! This bug is fixed in the RHEL kernel (at least in the SRPM, which doesn't necessarily build into the same binary RPM that RHEL customers get). I'm running the kernel-2.4.21-4.EL on my WBEL 3.0RC2 test boxes. The Red Hat 9 box that still has the LVM snapshot bug is kernel-2.4.20-24.9. I no longer have a Fedora box to test LVM on.
Also I'm looking at upgrading my DB2/Linux
servers that currently run on Intel Architecture
(IBM xSeries 330s) and now considering AMD's Opteron processors and was curious if anybody else
has tried the Opterons?
Not yet. I'll let someone else beta test the new arch. ;-) -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
