Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Released

[mandy]

Red Hat has released Enterprise Linux 5.1 with integrated virtualization. This release provides the most compelling platform for customers and software developers ever, with its industry-leading virtualization capabilities complementing Red Hat's newly announced Linux Automation strategy. It offers the industry's broadest deployment ecosystem, covering standalone systems, virtualized systems, appliances and web-scale “cloud” computing environments.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 virtualization delivers considerably broader server support than proprietary virtualization products, and up to twice the performance. This allows greater server consolidation and eliminates a key obstacle to deploying virtualization more widely. And Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers benefit from one of the industry's largest and fastest-growing set of certified applications...

full article: http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/linux...-linux-5-1

[jezebel]

The question everyone is asking

When will CentOS 5.1 become available ?

The answer:

The realistic date that I would expect the release announcement (if we have no unforeseen problems) would be in the neighborhood of 26-30 November 2007.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/view...c_id=11128&forum=37

[regic]

http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007...centos_5_1

[jezebel]

CentOS 5.1 was released a few hours ago 

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos...14476.html

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.1 for
the i386 and x86_64 Architectures.

CentOS-5.1 is based on the upstream release 5.1, and includes packages
from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories
have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work
with. And the option to further enable external repositories at install
time is now available in the installer.

Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be
released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release
to Beta first, and then to Final.

This is the first release where we are also publishing a special
netinstall iso that can be used to start a remote install. Its included
in the isos/ directory. This iso is in addition to the boot.iso
published in the images/ directory of the distribution - there are no
changes to that file.

[regic]

I upgraded this server to 5.1 earlier this morning. 

[rose]

You did it without breaking anything? I'm impressed. :twistedevil: