RHEL Server 7.3 - first impression

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Generally I never upgrade operating systems, because for reliability and stability reasons I always perform clean installations, but in this one case I made an exception. Yesterday I upgraded from RHEL Server 7.2 to the RHEL 7.3 final version and I have to say that this was an unexpected positive experience, everything went smoothly without any single issue. This was a bare metal installation upgrade, done on an older DELL machine. Today I performed a clean installation in a virtual machine (KVM | qemu | virt-manager). Again not a single problem - the whole installation process was convenient - it went straight through and completed successfully within a relative short period of time. Then I started the virtual machine from my fedora 24 workstation installed on a newer CLEVO notebook and that beast runs as if it was installed on bare metal. Everything is working as expected, all tasks are running fluently, no issues, no problems ... so, I only can recommend to switch to RHEL version 7.3 as soon as possible. There are a lot of new features and many improvements under the hood, so nobody will regret it. I want to thank every developer and all other contributors being involved in the creation of this great operating system !

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Thanks for sharing, Christian.

I'd add that the 7.3 release was accompanied by the complete docs set for RHEL. The majority of the new features are described in the 7.3 Release Notes.

I checked the Installation Guide, it opens the documentation for RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7.2 BETA, a little bug ? https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/index.html

You're welcome, Robert ! :) Thanks for the information, I already read the release notes - now I am going to check out the other docs.

Well, that's embarrassing :-) Fortunately, it's just the version number -- the content of the guide is current.

I'm fixing it now. It'll take a few hours before the fixed doc lands on the Portal.

No reason to feel ashamed - we all can be very happy that you are providing such an excellent documentation. I want to take the opportunity to say : Thank you so much for your fantastic work and for everything else you are doing for the community !

Thanks Christian. I'll be sure to share that with the team.

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