This means that RHEL 6 will be a long time coming
Posted Jun 19, 2008 22:51 UTC (Thu) by
dowdle (subscriber, #659)
Parent article:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 get another year of TLC (The Register)
As I mentioned in my Linuxfest Northwest 2008 report written at the end of April:
http://www.montanalinux.org/linuxfest-northwest-2008-scottsreport.html
"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. While that is a long time out it appears that Red Hat may be extending the support life cycle of RHEL 5 as a result."
Is it really a surprise that if RHEL6 is going to be delayed that they'd extend the life of RHEL5? I am a little surprised that they are extending RHEL4 though.
In other news today from the Red Hat Summit:
It was announced that the OpenJDK that ships with Fedora 9 passed the much sought after Sun Java compatibility test.
Red Hat released a product named Spacewalk (http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/) - "Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived." It appears it will allow you to manage CentOS and Fedora hosts but since the "content stream" of RHEL is not freely available (you can only get binary updated packages for RHEL from Red Hat Network), you can't manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems with it. That's ok. To me it seems that Red Hat is giving away the family jewels... and it sure will be nice to be able to setup your own RHN service and manage CentOS hosts with it. My guess is that this is a fork in the eye of Ubuntu Server.
There are quite a few other announcements (Red Hat Enterprise MRG V1, FreeIPA, etc) but those are the ones I care about the most.
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