What will be the version of RHEL5 kernel?

[Ali Hamad]

could you please give me a URL that I can download RHEL5 from?
It seems interesting .

Thanks,


On 9/14/06, Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting Yogi pn <yougander at gmail.com>:
>
> > What are the major changes b/w RHEL4 and RHEL5?
>
> The best thing would be to download beta, install it on some test
> machine(s) and play with it, see how it works for you.  I'm mostly
> interested in "server" changes.  Somebody else might be more
> interested in "workstation" changes.
>
> I've installed only minimalistic text-only server-type test machine.
>
> Some things I noticed so far:
>
> Anaconda has improved error handling.  It will catch some error
> conditions and report sensible errors, instead of crashing with
> cryptic traceback.  I was able to find one ommision in this new error
> checking code using my default kickstart file on my very first
> installation attempt.  I guess it might be good idea for people using
> custom hand-built kickstart files to download beta, test out if
> installation works and complain before final is out (that's what the
> beta is for after all).  So their kickstarts are not going to fail
> when RHEL5 gets "production ready" stamp.
>
> Removable media is handled differently.  There's no more fstab-sync
> and updating of /etc/fstab file.  Likewise, mount points under /media
> don't seem to be static like in the RHEL4.  Instead gnome-mount is
> used (for both text and graphical interfaces).
>
> Packages are mostly bumped to latest or almost-latest versions.  I
> guess server people will mostly be interested in these:
>
> Kernel 2.6.17 (which I still hope isn't too late to bump to 2.6.18 for
> beta2/final)
> PHP 5.1.3
> MySQL 5.0.22
> Cyrus-IMAPD 2.3.7 (this version shouldn't require separate frontend
> and backend servers for Cyrus Murder (cluster) configuration)
> Apache 2.2.3
> OpenSSL 0.9.8b
> OpenLDAP 2.3.24 (2.2.x from RHEL4 is already totally unsupported
> upstream, syncrepl should be production ready in this version I guess)
> xorg-x11 7.1
> GCC 4.1.1
>
> And the list goes on and on.
>
> Other than that, it still looks preatty much like standard RHEL under
> the hood.  At least for the server stuff.
>
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