Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1

AlmaLinux, CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat, Rocky Linux

A Red Hat ma bejelentette a vállalati szegmensbe szánt Linux disztribúciójának, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-nak az 5.1-es kiadását. A bejelentéssel egyidőben a cég sajtóhírben számol be a RHEL 5.1 új virtualizációs szolgáltatásairól.

A RHEL 5.1 a 2.6.18-as (kernel-2.6.18-53.el5) Linux kernelre épül. Néhány kiemelt jellemző a bejelentésből: 


 Virtualization improvements:

- Completion of virtualization support on Itanium2 platforms
    + PV (paravirtualized) and FV (fully virtualized) Itanium2
      guests are now fully supported on Itanium2 hardware
      (full virtualization requires hardware assist)
  - Improved support for FV guests
    + Live-migration support for FV guests
    + General performance improvements
    + Host infrastructure for PV drivers (the actual drivers
      will be delivered separately in the context of the
      individual supported guest operating systems)
  - Update of the libvirt management layer
  - New Xen 3.1.0 hypervisor (and updates to libvirt and
    userspace to work against hypervisor ABI)
  - AMDV support for domain migration and save/restore
  - Added Kexec/Kdump support for the host in a virtualized
    environment

  New kernel features includes:

  - Improved ACPI power management support including support
    for S3 suspend to RAM and S4 hibernate
  - Support for installation to and boot from dm-multipath
  - Updated SATA subsystem
  - Ext3 filesystem now fully supports filesystem sizes of up
    to 16TB
  - Updated CIFS to version 1.48aRH
  - IPMI and HPI updates
  - Updated Infiniband support to OFED1.2 version including
    RDMA over Ethernet
  - Expanded in-kernel socket API
  - IPv6 improvements
  - Added support for shared page table for hugetlb pages

  Hardware support enhancements:

  - Driver updates include:
    3w-9xxx, aacraid, aic79xx, aic94xx, alsa, arcmsr, b44,
    bnx2, cciss, chelsio, e1000, ipmi, ipw2100, ipw2200, ixgb,
    lpfc, megaraid, megaraid_sas, mpt-fusion, pci, powernow-k8,
    qla2xxx, qla3xxx, qla4xxx, s2io, sky2, spidernet, stex, tg3

  - Drivers added:
    e1000e, forcedeth, netxen_nic, xinput

  Other notable additions:

  - Improved auditing
  - Smartcard support for SSH
  - Integration of LSPP certification related changes
  - Samba update for improved interoperability
  - PAM/Kerberos and NSS-LDAP updates for improved integration
    in Active Directory environments
  - Improvements to the "crash"-analysis tool
  - Added replication and migration support for NFSv4 referrals
  - Improved support for autofs load balancing with replicated
    servers

A bejelentés itt.

( insight | 2007. 11. 07., sze – 20:32 )

És gondolom értelemszerűen hamarosan CentOS 5.1 is lesz.

( mogorva v | 2007. 11. 07., sze – 21:01 )

Én egyelőre nem akarok elszakadni a 4-estől. Túlzottan belaktam már és az 5-ös annyira nem is tetszik.......