Mar 15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat has released the new version of it’s operating system RHEL 5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). RHEL 5 implements a totally integrated Xen-based server and storage virtualization solution, by combining server virtualization with Red Hat’s clustering support. In addition, RHEL 5 comes with a virtualization manager that should make installing and administering Xen virtual machines much easier.
Performance and scalability improvement have been done with this new version. The kernel version is now 2.6.18 (previously it was 2.6.9) Security with RHEL 5’s SELinux (security enhanced Linux) was also improved and should be easier to use.
Another big evolution is the introduction of yum. You should be able to have a yum repository. Everything will be based on yum (the system-config-packages, the RHEL update,…)
In the meanwhile, you may have already tested the RHEL 4 update 5 (which is the first update for RHEL 4 to include Xen paravitualized kernels). It was released last week, and the main evolve is the integration of XEN. Xen is the open source virtualization effort that Red Hat has already included in its Fedora community Linux releases (with Fedora Core 6) and is part of Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 release as well, for many months now.
http://www.redhat.com/
http://www.europe.redhat.com/rhel/
http://www.xensource.com/