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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."

3 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. Red Hat doesn't matter anymore by cyberkahn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I use to be a long time Red Hat user. I used Red Hat, since 4.2 up until version 9. When they went the Fedora route, I switched to Ubuntu and have never looked back since. Ubuntu is how Red Hat use to be before they got greedy. I like Ubuntu much better than Red Hat e.g. package management etc.

  2. Can Etch be far behind?!??!??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Calling December '06: We want our new Debian stable!

  3. Re:The wait is almost over? by logic+hack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Care to elaborate into a % of the LoC as carried by an African swallow per hogshead?