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Released version 7.0 of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) flagship operating system today. It boasts Windows interoperability, a new default file system, containerization and guarantees 10 years of support across any future major or minor releases. Perhaps most importantly it updates the underlying Linux kernel that was used in RHEL 6.x from 2.6.32 to 3.10. All of this points to a much-needed modernization of RHEL says, a Forrester analyst who covers infrastructure and operations, “This is important for Red Hat since it allows them to play catch-up and a bit of leap-frog with, bringing their release into the 3.x series kernel sequence, and in general because it introduces a bunch of useful improvements for their customers,” Fichera told me in an email.

In an effort to provide more stability for its customer base, senior director of marketing at Red Hat, says they have guaranteed that they will support this release for 10 years. Coggin says this is a serious commitment to customers by Red Hat and means providing bug fixes, security releases and updates for the 10 years. He says they worked hard in this version to make it easier to install, manage and deploy RHEL, and that means including interoperability with Windows Active Directory and automated scripting to help sys admins during the upgrade process. Coggin admits that no upgrade is trivial, but they are providing the tools sys admins require to see what needs changing or altering before upgrading to ease the process.

Fichera says this goes a long way toward ensuring simplicity for sys admins. “RHEL 7 contains a range of improvements to make it simpler to install and lower overhead to manage, including in-place upgrades of an existing RHEL system, rollback capabilities, and templatized deployment via “profiles”, which allow configuration definitions to be specified for specific workloads and deployed on demand. After the installation, the distribution contains a vastly improved set of runtime management and monitoring capabilities to enable optimal runtime performance,” he explained is also significant says who covers servers and systems software for IDC. “This release is particularly important because of the Docker (Linux container) support that is incorporated in the product. The Red Hat folks feel that Linux container technology will be especially useful for service providers and for customers wanting to have better version-to-version application portability, and I would agree with this contention,” he said. The update also changes the default file system from EXT4 to XFS, explained Coggin, but offers support for a variety of other file systems, should customer require it.

Forrester’s Fichera says this is important. “The Linux kernel now includes a wide range of file systems, ranging from an improved EXT (the most widely used Linux file system) to XFS (for very large file systems up to half a Petabyte) and a beta version of btrfs (a geeky contraction of “Better File System),” he told me. ” It’s been 3.5 years since the last major RHEL update and question remains about whether companies are looking for large upgrades like this one, or if they want a more gradual, continuous upgrade process.

IDC’s Gillen says the industry is split on this point. “We feel that the industry is going through a fundamental split, where customers will have to make a decision for using infrastructure solutions that have continuous upgrades (such as Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Fedora, iOS, etc.), versus the classic IT control point that allowed IT to decide if, and when, updates are allowed to be applied to their infrastructure,” Gillen explained. But he added that certain companies need this latter approach, especially in regulated industries.

Red Hat’s Coggin says they are reviewing how they deliver updates, but that their customer base typically has certain expectations about this. “We are the leader in market for commercial Linux with a huge cadre of customers who expect a certain release cadence and lifecycle,” but he said, “We are evaluating what a life cycle means.” He explained they have introduced software collections and toolsets that do have more frequent releases for those companies that want that, but a lot of their customers require stability and they want to provide a path for both types of customers moving forward. Coggin said close to 10,000 customers participated in the RHEL 7 Beta with 60 of those what he called “high touch” participants, whom they kept in close contact with for detailed feedback about the product. Featured Image: / UNDER A LICENSE.

Fedora 26 Fedora 26 was released on July 11, 2017. Fedora 25 Fedora 25 was released on November 22, 2016. Some notable changes (see for more) are the use of the, Unicode 9, PHP 7.0, Node.js 6 and IBus Emoji typing. Fedora 24 Fedora 24 was released on June 21, 2016. Some notable system wide changes (see for more) are the use of GNOME 3.20, GCC 6, and Python 3.5.

The tables below list the major and minor Red Hat Enterprise Linux updates, their release dates, and the kernel versions that shipped with them. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 101. A new version is released every ~3 months. Full ten-year life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Linux, assembled by the. New plan is to draw most of the codebase from Fedora when creating new Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions. Fedora replaces.

Fedora 23 Fedora 23 was released on November 3, 2015. It offers GNOME 3.18. It comes with 5. The Fedora release updater, fedup, was integrated into DNF. It uses a Python3 (specifically python3.4.3) as the operating system's default Python implementation. Fedora 22. Fedora 18 Fedora 18, codenamed 'Spherical Cow', was released on January 15, 2013.

Some of the features of Fedora 18 include:. Linux kernel 3.6.10. Support for. A rewrite of the installer.

A new system upgrade utility called FedUp. Default desktop upgraded to GNOME 3.6.3. Updated to KDE Plasma 4.9 and 4.10. Inclusion of and desktops. Better support through v3.

Support for hotspots. Support for 256 color terminals by default. Offline system updates utilizing and.

Better cloud computing support with the inclusion of, and. replaces system-config-firewall as default Fedora 17. Fedora 17 The next release of the operating system was Fedora 17, codenamed 'Beefy Miracle', which was released on May 29, 2012. Some of the features of Fedora 17 include:.

Linux kernel 3.3.4. Integrated UEFI support. Inclusion of GNOME 3.4 desktop, offering software rendering support for.

Updated to latest 4.8.3. A new filesystem structure moving more things to /usr. Removable disks are now mounted under /run/media due to a change in udisks. systemd-logind replaces ConsoleKit, offering improvements. Inclusion of the sandbox; now supports USB pass-through. Services now use private temp directories to improve security Fedora 16.

Fedora 16 Fedora 16, codenamed 'Verne', was released on November 8, 2011. Fedora 16 was also dedicated to the memory of, who died about a month before the release. Some of the features of Fedora 16 included:. Linux kernel 3.1.0. Inclusion of GNOME 3.2.1 desktop. Updated to latest 4.7.2. begun the default boot-loader.

driver used for and file systems. removed in favour of udisks, and libudev. Unification of the user interfaces for all problem reporting programs and mechanisms. Virtualization improvements including and. Fedora uses / up through 999 for system accounts.

Enhanced cloud support including, and -cloud Fedora 15. Fedora 14 Fedora 14, codenamed, was released on November 2, 2010. Features of Fedora 14 include:. Updated to the upstream 1.44 release. Addition of the (LDC) and (Tango). Concurrent release of Fedora 14 on the cloud.

Updated Fedora's stack to Helios releases. Updated to the upstream R14 release.

Replacement of with. Inclusion of virt-v2v tool. Inclusion of Spice framework for VDI deployment. Updates to implementation of. IDE updated to the 6.9 release.

Inclusion of ipmiutil system management tool. Inclusion of a tech preview of the environment. 2.7 Fedora 13. Fedora 12 Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, was released on November 17, 2009.

And other derivatives are based on Fedora 12. Some of the features in Fedora 12 are:. Optimized performance. Fedora 11 with the bird theme Fedora 11, codenamed Leonidas, was released on June 9, 2009.

This was the first release whose artwork is determined by the name instead of by users voting on themes. Some of the features in Fedora 11 are:. as the default. experimental activated by IcantbelieveitsnotBTR command line option at bootup. faster bootup aimed at 20 seconds. GCC 4.4.

GNOME 2.26. KDE Plasma 4.2 (KDE Spin). 2.6.29. 3.4.2. 6.5.

kernel modesetting through the open source driver. OpenOffice 3.1. 2.6.

Xfce to 4.6 (Xfce Spin). X server 1.6. – support for systems with Fedora 10. Fedora 9 with the Waves theme Fedora 9, codenamed Sulphur, was released on May 13, 2008. Some of the new features of Fedora 9 included:., which is the default interface as part of the KDE spin. has replaced.

is included as a front-end to yum, and as the default package manager. One Second X allows the to perform a cold start from the command line in nearly one second; similarly, shutdown of X should be as quick. introduced. Many improvements to the installer; among these features, it now supports resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS file systems, and can create and install Fedora to encrypted file systems.

3.0 beta 5 is included in this release, and the 3.0 package was released as an update the same day as the general release. Perl 5.10, which features a smaller memory footprint and other improvements.

Data Persistence in USB images. Fedora 9 featured a new artwork entitled Waves which, like Infinity in Fedora 8, changes the wallpaper to reflect the time of day. Fedora 8. Fedora 8 with the Infinity theme Fedora 8, codenamed Werewolf, was released on November 8, 2007. Some of the new features and updates in Fedora 8 included:. – a sound daemon that allows different applications to control the audio. Fedora was the first distribution to enable it by default.

system-config-firewall – a new firewall configuration tool that replaces system-config-securitylevel from previous releases. Codeina – a tool that guides users using content under proprietary or patent-encumbered formats to purchase codecs from; it is an optional component that may be uninstalled in favor of codec plug-ins which are free of charge. – a project that attempts to bring to Fedora by replacing encumbered code. – faster, more reliable connections; better security (through the use of the ); clearer display of wireless networks; better integration. Better laptop support – enhancements to the kernel to reduce battery load, disabling of background jobs when running on the battery, and additional wireless drivers. Fedora 8 also included a new desktop artwork entitled Infinity, and a new desktop theme called Nodoka. A unique feature of Infinity is that the wallpaper can change during the day to reflect the time of day.

In February 2008, a new Live CD 'spin' was announced for the and architectures. This version uses the Xfce desktop environment, which aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Like the GNOME and KDE spins, the Xfce spin can be installed to the hard disk. Fedora 7. Fedora 7 with the Flying High theme Fedora 7, codenamed Moonshine, was released on May 31, 2007. The biggest difference between Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7 was the merging of the Red Hat 'Core' and Community 'Extras' repositories, dropping 'Core' from the name 'Fedora Core,' and the new build system put in place to manage those packages.

This release used entirely new build and compose tools that enabled the user to create fully customized Fedora distributions that could also include packages from any third party provider. There were three official spins available for Fedora 7:. Live – two Live CDs (one for GNOME and one for KDE);. Fedora – a DVD that includes all the major packages available at shipping;. Everything – simply an installation tree for use by yum and Internet installations.

Fedora 7 featured GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5, a new theme entitled Flying High, 2.2 and 2.0. Was fully integrated and enabled by default. Also, there were a number of updates to, including a new setroubleshoot tool for debugging SELinux security notifications, and a new, comprehensive system-config-selinux tool for fine-tuning the SELinux setup. Fedora Core 5–6.

Fedora Core 6 with the DNA theme These two Core releases introduced specific artwork that defined them. This is a trend that has continued in later Fedora versions. Fedora Core 5 was released on March 20, 2006, with the codename Bordeaux, and introduced the Fedora Bubbles artwork. It was the first Fedora release to include and tools built with it such as, and.

It also introduced new package management tools such as pup and pirut ( see ). It also was the first Fedora release not to include the long deprecated (but kept for compatibility), replaced by the. Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24, 2006, codenamed Zod. This release introduced the Fedora DNA artwork, replacing the Fedora Bubbles artwork used in Fedora Core 5. The codename is derived from the infamous villain, from the Superman DC Comic Books. This version introduced support for the and (a technology that enables GL-accelerated effects on a standard desktop). It shipped with 1.5 as the default web browser, and, a tool that allows users to inform developers about the hardware they use.

Fedora Core 1–4. Fedora Core 4 using GNOME and the Bluecurve theme Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003. It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9 and shipped with version 2.4.19 of the Linux kernel, version 2.4 of the desktop environment, and. Fedora Core 2 was released on May 18, 2004, codenamed Tettnang. It shipped with Linux 2.6, GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2, and (SELinux was disabled by default due to concerns that it radically altered the way that Fedora Core ran). XFree86 was replaced by the newer X.org, a merger of the previous official X11R6 release, which additionally included a number of updates to Xrender, Xcursor, fontconfig libraries, and other significant improvements.

Fedora Core 3 was released on November 8, 2004, codenamed Heidelberg. This was the first release of Fedora Core to include the, as well as support for the. This release also saw the deprecated in favour of. Was also enabled by default, but with a new targeted policy, which was less strict than the policy used in Fedora Core 2. Fedora Core 3 shipped with GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3.

It was the first release to include the new Fedora Extras repository. Fedora Core 4 was released on June 13, 2005, with the codename Stentz.

It shipped with Linux 2.6.11, KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10. This version introduced the new Clearlooks theme, which was inspired by the Bluecurve theme. It also shipped with the 2.0 office suite, as well as, a high performance and secure open source virtualization framework. It also introduced support for the CPU architecture, and over 80 new policies for. Fedora gallery.

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