First look at the RHEL 6
Red Hat have put out a public beta of the forth coming version of RHEL. The package list looks quite promising, with the improvement on virtualisation, storage and cluster suite improvements, you can easily tell that it’s target to the enterprise market and follows the trends.
For every new version of RHEL coming out, new software packages is added to the distribution, some old softwares get removed, and most of the software packages get updated version.
The most important changes are all system-config-* tools are gone now. The ext4 file system is the default, instead of ext3 in RHEL5. Python get updated from version 2.4 to 2.6 but Ruby is still in version 1.8.6, only a small minor update from version 1.8.5 in RHEL5. Since RHEL 6 only included in version 1.8.6, it will not even run Rails 3. Rails 3 required at least ruby 1.8.7, or ruby 1.9.2 to run, it’s a shame that Red Hat only include a old version of ruby in their RHEL6, but you can always install REE or compile from source by yourself.
Maybe you can give Ubuntu 10.04 LTS a try, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS also include some interesting feature including MySQL 5.1, python 2.6, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, and Ubuntu One File Syncing. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is schedule to release on 29 April 2010.
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