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Posted Jun 26, 2012 19:18 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Old news by hamjudo
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

I see a lot of companies just sticking with RHEL 5.x because it just works and there isn't any significant functionality missing.


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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).

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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 :)

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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:

http://libguestfs.org/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

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