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We have just released a new RHEL6-based kernel, 042test005. It is shaping up pretty good — as you can see from the changelog, it's not just bug fixes but also performance improvements. If you haven't tried it yet, I suggest to do it today! Do not postpone this until 2011 — after all, this is what will become the next stable OpenVZ kernel.

RHEL6 kernel needs an appropriate (i.e. recent) Linux distribution. If you don't want latest Fedora releases, can't afford RHEL6, and tired of waiting for CentOS 6, I suggest you go with Scientific Linux 6 (SL6). This is yet another RHEL6 clone developed and used by CERN, Fermilabs and other similar institutions.

While SL6 is still at its infancy (they have recently released alpha 3 and plan to release beta 1 at Jan 7 2011), it it worth trying since it's based on a very stable set of sources from RHEL6. Repositories and stuff are available from http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6rolling/

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dowdle
Dec. 30th, 2010 04:16 pm (UTC)
Doing a little testing
I've given it a try on two Fedora KVM VMs (one 32-bit and the other 64-bit) and it seems to work fine... but I haven't really done much with it yet. Hopefully I'll get some more testing done in the not too distant future.

I need to give Scientific Linux a try. I have played with it a little in the past but unlike CentOS, they seem to stray a bit from the stock Red Hat packages. The CentOS developers are pretty hush hush and have not given any indicator as to when to expect the CentOS 6 release. My guess would be sometime in February.

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