Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
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Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#2"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta includes three desktops to match different work styles and preferences: GNOME 3, GNOME Classic, and KDE."
I know that RHEL is mainly used on servers, but this development looks significant to me. I look forward to an eventual CentOS 7 release with a choice of desktops.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#3"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta includes three desktops to match different work styles and preferences: GNOME 3, GNOME Classic, and KDE." I know that RHEL is mainly used on servers, but this development looks significant to me. I look forward to an eventual CentOS 7 release with a choice of desktops.
As someone who uses CentOS 6 on the desktop, people really should take a look at this.
For me, it's the only Linux desktop which I can find which is reliable and works out of the box with all my hardware.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#4"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta includes three desktops to match different work styles and preferences: GNOME 3, GNOME Classic, and KDE." I know that RHEL is mainly used on servers, but this development looks significant to me. I look forward to an eventual CentOS 7 release with a choice of desktops.
As someone who uses CentOS 6 on the desktop, people really should take a look at this. For me, it's the only Linux desktop which I can find which is reliable and works out of the box with all my hardware.
Watch it with wifi on newer hardware though. It's rock solid 90% of the time, but I've had issues in the past (especially with Atheros cards)
I usually prefer that. I'm actually using fedora with MATE to get a similar UX.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#5"All Java 7 packages (java-1.7.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-oracle, java-1.7.0-ibm) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta let you install multiple versions in parallel, similarly to the kernel."
This sounds pretty convenient to me.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#6"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta includes three desktops to match different work styles and preferences: GNOME 3, GNOME Classic, and KDE." I know that RHEL is mainly used on servers, but this development looks significant to me. I look forward to an eventual CentOS 7 release with a choice of desktops.
As someone who uses CentOS 6 on the desktop, people really should take a look at this. For me, it's the only Linux desktop which I can find which is reliable and works out of the box with all my hardware.
Yes, I have CentOS 6 on a Thinkpad x200s with hard drive encryption enabled as my work machine. I find it stable and quite fast. I may leave that machine on CentOS 6 and put 7 on the 'play' laptop.
My point was giving a choice of desktops is a new departure for Red Hat. Remember that they employ, or have employed, a number of the Gnome developers, and that I gather Red Hat has been a major sponsor of Gnome in the past.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#7"All Java 7 packages (java-1.7.0-openjdk, java-1.7.0-oracle, java-1.7.0-ibm) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 beta let you install multiple versions in parallel, similarly to the kernel." This sounds pretty convenient to me.
I don't think that this is new (other than 1.7 being the default now) unless they are using something other than alternatives: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Ent...
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#8This is very exciting. I know until it gets all the government certs and rubber stamps I won't be able to use it at work but if it is out the ball can start rolling as they say.
Here is the list of all the detail (tech notes):
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
You can see updated and deprecated packages as well as issues so far in beta.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#9Fedora 18 is already matured?) Or it is based on outdated 17th?
Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
#10Anyone know what version of gcc it'll ship with? Couldn't find that in the tech overview PDF...