FreeBSD 7.1 has been officially announced few weeks back, this version of FreeBSD has incorporated some changes and some improvements over its predecessor RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0 including:

• The ULE scheduler is now the default in the kernel of the i386 and amd64 architectures.
• DTrace is completely ported to FreeBSD from OpenSolaris.
• BootLoader is amended to allow boot from USB devices.
• Upgrade to KDE 3.5.10 and upgrade to GNOME 2.22.3.
• Now we can download all the discs in one DVD just for the i386 and amd64 architectures (quite good news for those who bothered much of jogging cds all the time).

for those interested in learning more about new features, bugs fixes, changes in FreeBSD 7.1, please check the official FreeBSD announcement.

I have noticed that Fedora 11 (Leonidas) used ext4fs as file system by default.

Ext4fs main features are:

• Compatibility with ext3FS
• Larger file system support (> 16T)
• larger File Size Support (> 2T)
• Scalability of subdirectories
• Extents
• Multi Allocation
• Delayed allocation
• fsck faster
• Checksum Journal
• Journal mode
• Online defragmentation
• Persistent pre-allocation
• Barriers

Being Fedora 11 is the base for the development of the new version of RHEL, we can expect a great upcoming Linux distribution.

So I recommend Red Hat rather than Windows for your Enterprise :). Please leave a comment with your Linux Success stories :).

Red Hat, Inc., the leading global provider of open source solutions, has announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 on the 20th of Jan 2009.

This third update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides a wide range of improvements, including virtualization, significantly increased scalability, expanded hardware platform and supported the inclusion of OpenJDK Java technologies.

The new version is available for immediate download from Red Hat Network.

The original Red Hat Press.

Ah again I need to upgrade my servers :). Don’t You!!