Red Hat Server Edition 6: Long Life Cycle With Lots to Like

Red Hat Enterprise 6 (aka Santiago) was released Nov. 10, 2010 -- 3.5 years after the first release of RHEL 5 and 7 months after RHEL 5.5. It will be supported to at least some extent for another 10 years (until Nov. 30, 2020), which is a pretty impressive life cycle, especially compared to the 5-year support of Ubuntu's LTS releases. It's just one confirmation of the intended market for RHEL6, which is clear throughout the release specs.

Some of the basics: The supplied kernel is 2.6.32, and the new default filesystem is ext4 (much faster than ext3, and scales to 16TB). Other filesystem add-ons available include XFS (scalable to 100TB) and the clustered GFS2 filesystem. NFSv4 and Fuse are also included.

Red Hat's big focus in this release has been on scalability and flexibility, supporting physical, virtual and cloud systems. There's a stack of cluster support options, based around the Corosync Cluster Engine, and including Conga (Red Hat's cluster management software), and virtualization options. The kernel's been improved to spend more time idle, which reduces power usage -- great for the power bills of big organizations, not to mention the planet. RHEL6 can support up to 64 virtualized CPUs per guest using KVM (which comes with the release; Xen doesn't); and on hardware, up to 4,096 CPUs.

Red Hat is clearly thinking about what might happen during that theoretical 10-year life cycle.

Indian Device(so called laptop) is Linux based(Open Source)

India released a Rs.1,500 ($30) laptop / Tablet PC for students and teachers in colleges and Universities. The device is currently not available for sale in the market as government has decided to launch it for students in 2011.
The price of this device (so called laptop) may even go below to Rs.1500 in future. This revolutionary laptop supports multimedia content, Zip-Unzip feature, PDF Reader, SciLab, OpenOffice and a browser for social networking websites like Facebook and Myspace but still not confirmed if we can use it as a gaming device.

Specifications:

• Display: Touch Screen
• Keyboard: Built in
• RAM: 2GB
• Connectivity: Wifi, USB
• Operating System: Linux
• Power: 2 watt
• It has single unit system which has a touch screen.
• It has a keyboard which is in-built.
• It is operated by a 2 watt system so that it can even perform in areas where power supply is low.

Features:

• Video web conferencing facility,
• Multimedia content viewer for example pdf, jpeg, zip, etc,
• Computing capabilities such as Open Office, SciLab and
• Internet browsing with flash plug-in, JavaScript.
• It is enabled with a touch screen.
• An in-built keyboard is attached with this laptop.
• The laptop can store the data of up to 2 GB memory. It is a RAM memory.
• Wifi connectivity and USB port are this laptop’s additional features.
• 2 watt system is used up by this laptop so that it can even perform in areas where power supply is low.
• Linux system is programmable in this laptop.

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