Editor: Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta, the next generation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 blurs the lines Between virtual, physical, and Cloud computing to address shifts taking place in the Modern IT environment. Featuring updated core technology, from the kernel to the application infrastructure to the development toolchain, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is designed to meet the needs of the coming generations of hardware and software technologies.
Features & Improvements:
The following are some of the many improvements and new features that are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta:
Power management: tickless kernel and improvements through the application stack to reduce wakeups, power consumption measurement by Powertop, Power Management (ASPM, ALPM), and adaptive system tuning by Tuned, all enhance more efficient system power usage.
Next generation networking: comprehensive IPv6 support (NFS 4, CIFS, mobile support [RFC 3775], ISATAP support), FCoE, iSCSI, and a new and improved mac 802.11 wireless stack.
Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS): system-level enhancements from industry collaborations make the most of hardware RAS capabilities and NUMA architectures.
Fine-grained control and management: improved scheduler and better resource management in the kernel via Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) and Control Groups (CG).
Scalable filesystems: ext4 file system provides support for larger file sizes and significantly reduces repair times over ext3. XFS is a high-performance file system that supports extremely large files and is optimized for large data transfers.
