Red Hat decide to give some boost to virtual server support. Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5.3 release is a sign of the times, both in terms of the growing importance companies are placing on the scalability of virtual environments and as an example of the maturity of enterprise Linux.
Launched Tuesday, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 supports virtual servers with up to 32 virtual CPUs and 80 GB of memory, and includes new performance-boosting features such as Hugepage memory andIntel Extended Page Tables. Red Hat has also bumped physical server support to 126 CPUs and 1 TB of main memory.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 also adds support for Intel Core i7 processors and OpenJDK, the official open-source core of the Java SE specification. The integration of OpenJDK marks the culmination of a push that began more than 18 months ago to shift Red Hat's development resources away from in-house projects and toward OpenJDK.
In November 2007, Red Hat signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and licensed Sun's Java Standard Edition (SE) technology compatibility kit, essentially paving the way for Red Hat to develop an officially compatible open-source Java Development Kit for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
While the new additions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 are noteworthy, the new release shows that Linux purveyors are more focused on performance and new hardware and standards support than they are on adding game-changing new features, according to Gordon Haff, a principal IT adviser at research firm Illuminata.
Source:http://www.crn.com/software/212901511
Launched Tuesday, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 supports virtual servers with up to 32 virtual CPUs and 80 GB of memory, and includes new performance-boosting features such as Hugepage memory andIntel Extended Page Tables. Red Hat has also bumped physical server support to 126 CPUs and 1 TB of main memory.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 also adds support for Intel Core i7 processors and OpenJDK, the official open-source core of the Java SE specification. The integration of OpenJDK marks the culmination of a push that began more than 18 months ago to shift Red Hat's development resources away from in-house projects and toward OpenJDK.
In November 2007, Red Hat signed Sun's OpenJDK license agreement and licensed Sun's Java Standard Edition (SE) technology compatibility kit, essentially paving the way for Red Hat to develop an officially compatible open-source Java Development Kit for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
While the new additions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 are noteworthy, the new release shows that Linux purveyors are more focused on performance and new hardware and standards support than they are on adding game-changing new features, according to Gordon Haff, a principal IT adviser at research firm Illuminata.
Source:http://www.crn.com/software/212901511
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