Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system launched

[Kristijntje]

Red Hat faces a lengthening list of rivals, but the company hopes to cement its lead in the Linux market Wednesday with its latest version of the open-source operating system...

RHEL 5's biggest new feature, hands down, is Xen virtualization. The promise of virtualization software, which lets a single machine run multiple operating systems in separate partitions called virtual machines, is that a single computer can replace several inefficiently used ones. In the longer term, virtualization also permits software to be moved--sometimes while running--from one computer to another, which opens the door for higher reliability and a fluidly responding computer room...

Red Hat will permit up to four virtual machines to run atop RHEL 5 Server, but it's adding a new product called RHEL Advanced Platform that supports unlimited virtual machines and includes the company's Global File System software...

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[rose]

Don't pay.  Use Cent OS 5, the free version of RHEL 5, instead:
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...148.0.html

[regic]

[quote author=rose link=topic=8625.msg49504#msg49504 date=1176577910]
Don't pay.  Use Cent OS 5, the free version of RHEL 5, instead:
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...148.0.html
[/quote]

We've used Red Hat Linux on our servers since version 5.0 and we've never had a need for their support which is why we use the free Fedora and CentOS versions and don't pay $349 for RHEL.