DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RHEL-4,5 AND RHEL-6


RHEL-4
RHEL-5
RHEL-6
RHEL 4 SELinux Block only 13 services
RHEL 5
SElinux Block 80 services
RHEL6 has advanced level of security. SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux)features are improved and a new set of SELinux rules has been added to provide security to virtual machines from hackers and attackers. This new feature is called SVirt.
Ext2 is made the default filesystem
Ext3 is made the default filesystem
Ext4 is made the default filesystem
no virtualization Feature
virtualization with Hypervisor-V
RHEL6 introduces the use of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) as its hypervisor. In the earlier releases kenhypervisor was used.
In RHEL 4 we have no Yum
RHEL 5 we have Yum available
RHEL 6 we have Yum available
Date of Release-2005-02-14
Date of Release-2007-03-15
Date of Release-2010-11-10


Redaht Life-cycle dates
Version
Date Of Release
End of support dates
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

(Prior version outside of Regular Life Cycle)
2005-02-14
2009-03-31 (End of Production 1)
2011-03-31 (End of Production 2)
2012-02-29 (End of Production 3 / End of Regular Life Cycle)
2015-02-28 (End of Extended Life Cycle)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

(Prior version with varying degrees of support)
2007-03-15
2013-01-08 (End of Production 1)
Q1 2014 (End of Production 2)
2017-03-31 (End of Production 3 / End of Regular Life Cycle)
Q1 2020 (End of Extended Life Cycle)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

( Current version )


2010-11-10
Q2 2016 (End of Production 1)
Q2 2017 (End of Production 2)
2020-11-30 (End of Production 3 / End of Regular Life Cycle)
Q4 2023 (End of Extended Life Cycle)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

( Future version)
Scheduled for the second half of 2013

Undisclosed



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