Re: preliminary info about RHEL 4?

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:38:56PM -0400, James Ralston wrote:
> Cobbled together from various Red Hat people, I've heard:
> 
>     - RHEL 4 will tentatively be based on FC 3
>     - RHEL 4 may (?) have SELinux
>     - the tentative target date is sometime in 2005

I can probably answer the last one since it's easy.  The published
release cycle for RHEL is 12-18 months.  We're at 11 months now (general
availabity was October 23, 2003).  RHEL 4 has been in alpha at some
customers and OEMS since February but I don't recall a beta
announcement.  That makes RHEL 4 unlikely to be released before the end
of 2004.  2005 is a big window so I'm almost positive it will be
released then.

As for SELinux, these articles have quotes from Red Hat Engineering:
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci962383,00.html
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci950384,00.html

Also check this whitepaper dated July 2004: http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/sec/WHP001USselinux.pdf
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4, to be released in the first part of 2005,
will feature the 2.6 Linux kernel and SELinux as two of its major
features."

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