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Red Hat Readies RHEL 5 for March 14 Launch

Posted by Hemos on from the coming-out dept.

Rob writes "The wait is almost over. It may have taken two weeks longer than Red Hat would have liked, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the updated version of the company's commercial Linux platform, will be launched along with a bevy of new products and services on March 14. The delivery of RHEL 5, the fourth major commercial server release for Red Hat, will better position its Linux against Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as well as Windows, Unix, and proprietary platforms. RHEL 5 has been cooking for more than two years and includes changes to the Linux kernel. In addition to the support for the Xen hypervisor, RHEL 5 also has an integrated version of Red Hat Cluster Suite, the company's high availability clustering software, as well as support for iSCSI disk arrays, InfiniBand with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), and the SystemTap kernel probing tool."

5 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. "Enterprise Linux" by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

    At some point, one of these Enterprise editions had better have a Starfleet logo on it.

    1. Re:"Enterprise Linux" by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 2, Funny

      They're waiting for Intel to develop the exploding plasma conduit components. They got close with the P4.

  2. Re:The wait is almost over? by jimstapleton · · Score: 2, Funny

    I stand corrected.

    No, wait...

    I sit corrected.

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    34486853790
    Connection too slow for X forwarding? Try "ssh -CX user@host"
  3. Re:CentOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't pay a Cent for that OS, huh?

    Communist!

    I keed, I keed.

  4. Re:When is Ubuntu Going to Compete with RedHat? by hondamankev · · Score: 3, Funny

    3 words:

    Developers
    Develop...

    wait, wrong thread.

    3 words:

    Support.
    Support.
    Support.