Tuesday, 12 September 2006

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 Rolled Out

Red Hat has announced the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1. It is a preview of Red Hat's suite of enterprise operating systems, designed for enterprise computing and certified by enterprise software vendors.

The development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is closely aligned with Fedora Core 6. This is the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux release that includes Xen-based open source virtualisation technology. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 release contains virtualisation on the i386 and x86_64 architectures as well as a technology preview for IA64.

Other focus areas for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 testing include:

• Network storage (Autofs, iSCSI)
• Kexec / Kdump (replacing Diskdump and Netdump)
• Smartcard integration
• ELinux Security
• Installer improvements
• Clustering and Cluster File systems
• Analysis and Development Tools (SystemTap, Frysk)
• Stateless Linux Enablers
• Infiniband and RDMA (OpenFabrics.Org)
• New Driver Model for better integration of out-of-kernel-tree drivers