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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3Posted Jun 25, 2012 21:04 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588)Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
Important, but old news is old. Come on lwn.
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Old news Posted Jun 25, 2012 21:08 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] The release is dated the 21st, our article the 25th. Four days, two of which were over the weekend. Yes, we could have gotten something out on the 21st, but is there really that much to complain about here?
Old news Posted Jun 25, 2012 21:17 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
You normally get these kinds of things sooner, thats all. Jon, I expect you to be a pseudonymn for an army of real kernel developers and quasi-borgs who bring realtime news to us.
Old news Posted Jun 26, 2012 1:08 UTC (Tue) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]
> I expect you to be a pseudonymn for an army of real kernel developers and quasi-borgs who bring realtime news to us.
Why settle for real-time? I expect my news to be delivered for me *before* it happens. :-)
Old news Posted Jun 26, 2012 8:10 UTC (Tue) by Rlyeh_Drifter (guest, #85333) [Link]
lwn.net is to be the place to get well written technical articles (which are scarce) rather than breaking news (which are all over the net). Seems perfectly fine.
Old news Posted Jun 25, 2012 22:36 UTC (Mon) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]
I think the important thing is that it got a mention, not whether it was 4 days after the announcement. It's not really "old" news for people who are making Enterprise planning decisions :)
Old news Posted Jun 25, 2012 22:37 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] ...and, besides...everything associated with enterprise distributions is by definition old news...:)
Old news Posted Jun 26, 2012 18:16 UTC (Tue) by hamjudo (subscriber, #363) [Link] My company just finished rolling out 5.7 to all of its servers. This 6.3 stuff is like science fiction. In particular, this bit from the release notes:A number of patches have been applied to the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 to improve overall performance and reduce boot time on extremely large systems (patches were tested on a system with 2048 cores and 16 TB of memory).
Old news Posted Jun 26, 2012 19:18 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
I see a lot of companies just sticking with RHEL 5.x because it just works and there isn't any significant functionality missing.
Old news Posted Jun 28, 2012 10:04 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]
If you're using virtualization, then RHEL 6 is a massive improvement on RHEL 5 (and RHEL 7 will be another huge step forward).
Old news Posted Jun 28, 2012 14:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
rwmj is too modest to say *why* RHEL6 is a massive improvement over RHEL5 for virtualization. libvirt has a lot to do with that, so thank you, rwmj :)
Old news Posted Jun 28, 2012 15:11 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]
Well to be fair I'm not so much involved in libvirt. But libguestfs had a massive upgrade in functionality in RHEL 6.3. The release notes cover all the changes between old 1.8 and new 1.16:
Old news Posted Jun 26, 2012 4:23 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
It suffices that *I* didn't know about it.
Those of you who did, come up and get a gold star.
Old news Posted Jun 26, 2012 7:25 UTC (Tue) by ersi (subscriber, #64521) [Link]
I'll just mention that, for some of us, four days is totally okay. It is for me.
If you actually *need* the information that a newer release is ready as soon as possible - you would/should probably get a release e-mail to your Red Hat Network subscribed e-mail address.
Or sign up to their release list or something >_>
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Posted Jun 26, 2012 5:48 UTC (Tue) by ctg (subscriber, #3459) [Link]
If I haven't read it in LWN, it hasn't happened. ;)
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