RHEL 7 released

This is the first time ever that Redhat had made a major release with CentOS as part of their organization. There is bound to be some confusion going on and people are being conservative in what they are going to talk about in public.

It will be interesting to see just how long before CentOS 7 comes out. Previous delays between CentOS and Redhat releases almost ended up being a deal breaker for the company I work at. We are not going to be willing to spend the money on Redhat licenses for every single system and having to support multiple versions of OSes is a significant burden while it was beginning to be increasingly difficult to run order versions of everything. Ubuntu LTS started coming up in discussions more and more. It would be easier in a lot of ways to simply switch to a different OS.

So hopefully better release coordination between CentOS and Redhat will be forthcoming.

If that happens and combined with the 'Software collections' it can be a huge win. This is interesting since it more closely resembles what we have to do to make sure that the application developers get the arbitrary dependencies they desire. Although I haven't even started looking at it closely it seems promising. I was leaning along the lines of abandoning rpms altogether for our in-house apps and just using something like Nix package management on top of Redhat since decoupling the package management system from the OS has turned out well for other things I've played around with. :/

At the very least people who have had problems with running the latest and greatest versions of PHP, python, or ruby should have a much easier time now on CentOS/Redhat.