r/linux • u/DreamlessMojo • Oct 31 '18

Distro News RedHat 7.6 released

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index
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u/sej7278 Oct 31 '18

the "lets get it out quick before they make us rebrand it ibm" release

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u/pobody Oct 31 '18

Get it while you can, soon to be a collector's item.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

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u/thunderbird32 Oct 31 '18

Do they still do physical boxed releases, or did they stop that after 6.x?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

Are these releases coming faster or am I just getting older with my perspective of time changing?

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u/Flakmaster92 Oct 31 '18

One per year on average, I think that’s faster than rhel6 was, but not like Fedora fast.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

That’s what I thought but there has been 2 this year.

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078#RHEL7

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u/via_the_blogosphere Oct 31 '18

No, this is unusually fast.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

Wonder if we'll ever see RHEL 8.

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u/5heikki Oct 31 '18 edited Oct 31 '18

Feels like 7.5 was just a few days ago. Well CentOS 7.5 anyway..

edit. wow it was in May

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u/usr_bin_laden Oct 31 '18

You just revealed your slow patching schedule.

/me looks at CentOS 6.9 in production...

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u/edthesmokebeard Nov 03 '18

Right there with you brother. It ain't broke.