RHEL 6 will provide new performance, virtualization and hardware enablement for Red Hat's enterprise users. RHEL 6 Beta 2 follows the RHEL 6 Beta 1 release by just over two months, and while it builds on the earlier beta, testers shouldn't expect to see any major new features at this point.
There are also enhancements to the Linux kernel used in the RHEL 6 Beta 2 release. Burke explained that the kernel has not been rebased wholesale, although there have been several subsystems updated to incorporate the company's recent upstream work.
RHEL 6 uses a hybrid kernel that includes part of the Linux 2.6.34 kernel release that Red Hat deems to be mature enough for enterprise users.
In addition to the enhancements to the kernel and installer, Red Hat is also restructuring the beta for some specific use-cases. There is now a RHEL 6 Server release as well as a RHEL 6 Workstation release. Additionally, for the server release, there are now Clustered Storage, Large File System, High Availability and Load Balance versions.
"They are each layered products on top of a standard base, so it's certainly not separate, full-distro spins," Burke said. For the Load Balance version, Burke explained that RHEL 6 is providing a round-robin type of service for IP traffic shaping. He noted that Red Hat has had this capability in its cluster suite add-on to Red Hat Enterprise Linux since RHEL 2.1.
Meanwhile, the RHEL 6 Workstation release is a desktop version of RHEL targeted for use by developers.
"It includes a more complete set of devel/debug tools," Burke said. "Additionally, developer workstations tend to be more beefy boxes, containing more memory and CPUs, hence that variant has higher scalability limits."
"They are each layered products on top of a standard base, so it's certainly not separate, full-distro spins," Burke said. For the Load Balance version, Burke explained that RHEL 6 is providing a round-robin type of service for IP traffic shaping. He noted that Red Hat has had this capability in its cluster suite add-on to Red Hat Enterprise Linux since RHEL 2.1.
Meanwhile, the RHEL 6 Workstation release is a desktop version of RHEL targeted for use by developers.
"It includes a more complete set of devel/debug tools," Burke said. "Additionally, developer workstations tend to be more beefy boxes, containing more memory and CPUs, hence that variant has higher scalability limits."
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