CentOS 6.0 What’s new?

If you are taking the RHCSA or RHCE you will want to know the main changes in the RHEL/CentOS distributions.

So what is new in CentOS 6.0 and what do you need to learn or refresh on for the new exam?

Ablibitum gives us a good summary of the new features below.

Filesystem & Storage:

  • ext4 is now the default filesystem,
  • LVM finally supports mergable snapshots – finally we can implement safe (transacted) file level replication using rsync.

Network:

  • iSCSI support for root and /boot partitions

Kernel:

  • Updated ‘tickless’ kernel – save power,
  • Cgroups support for resource allocation amongst process group.

Web and applications:

  • Apache 2.2
  • MySQL 5.1.47
  • PostgreSQL 8.4.4
  • Memcached 1.4.4
  • Ruby 1.8.7
  • PHP 5.3.2
  • Tomcat 6 / OpenJDK

For more  on RHEL 6, you will find the new technical details on the official site .