Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Hits General Availability

[Rohit Kumar]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the go-to Linux distribution for many enterprises. RHEL is the cornerstone that Red Hat built one of the most successful open source software businesses off of. Any time there is a RHEL release, those in the server world take note. Today, Red Hat announced the availability of RHEL 7.5. This […]

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[marcoi]

My client uses RHEL for their Linux servers. I wish there was a public version so i could use it when creating VMs at home. To get around that, at home i been using Ubuntu server and for the most part i got all the software i use on RHEL to work with Ubuntu. Somethings do require tweaking though.

 

[Evan]

Centos is much closer to RHEL than Ubuntu, it’s essentially free RHEL based on RHEL upstream sources

 

[cliffr]

CentOS is run by Red Hat now too.

 

[PigLover]

I think its odd that RH still sticks steadfastly to the "3.x kernel with (what are now massive numbers of) backports" for this release. I get their philosophy that 4.x kernel will be included in rhel 8.x - but there is soooo much important stuff in the mainline kernel these days. Its almost impossible to do anything sophisticated in networking or namespaces (containers) on the legacy kernel.

At least they are including something closer to mainline kernel as an option (their "kernel-alt" approach), though they appear to go to great lengths to discourage using it.

 

[MiniKnight]

Yea el repo it.

Even ubuntu 16.04 is on 4.4? But you swap to hwe in the installer and it'll do like 4.13. That's a big improvement on newer servers.

 

[PigLover]

Ubuntu 16.04 is now two years old and was released at that time on kernel 4.04, which was fresh and new and top of kernel train. Subsequent Ubuntu releases (16.10, 17.04, 17.10) were each released with a reasonably mainline kernel version. Their upcoming 18.04 LTS will be released on the newest mainline available, 4.15.

RH OTOH is making a major release on a years old legacy kernel with untold backports. Their stated goal is to keep a consistant kernel API for their user base. But in reality all theyve done is made the eventual release and adoption of their upcoming 8.0 massively difficult for their user base. But I guess it will help them sell lots of consulting hours

I prefer Canonical's approach. YMMV.

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[Patrick]

This is a big reason we are using mostly Ubuntu these days. When you get the newest hardware to test being on a new kernel is helpful.

 

[BLinux]

My client uses RHEL for their Linux servers. I wish there was a public version so i could use it when creating VMs at home. To get around that, at home i been using Ubuntu server and for the most part i got all the software i use on RHEL to work with Ubuntu. Somethings do require tweaking though.

you can get access to official RHEL and other things by signing up for their free developer account:

No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription now available - RHD Blog

that's been available now for a while...

2nd to that, CentOS is close enough to RHEL that 97.46% of what you do in RHEL is identical in CentOS. CentOS even has additional software repos to "enhance" the RHEL experience. Of course, there's also the EPEL, ELRepo, IUS, and other repositories to provide additional conveniences.