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
More information on the current, supported releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available here.
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