A Quick Look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 [LWN.net]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is due to be released on March 14. In addition to the rock-solid Server and Client software, RHEL 5 includes some unsupported technology previews, including Stateless Linux, GFS2, FS-Cache, Compiz, AIGLX and much more.

RHEL 5 features a 2.6.18 kernel with virtualization support and many improvements over the 2.6.9 kernel used by RHEL 4. A few features have been backported from 2.6.19 as well for improved performance and scalability.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Release Notes are available by platform: ia64, ppc, S390, x86 and x86_64. Though not finalized yet, they provide a good look at what you'll find in RHEL 5.

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A Quick Look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Posted Mar 9, 2007 1:09 UTC (Fri) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

I *HAD* been rechecking the RHEL 5 Beta docs section to see if they had updated or expanded something... recently the RHEL 5 Beta docs disappeared... and documentation for RHEL 4 Update 5 beta showed up to take its place.

Then I saw a few articles that mentioned that Xen support was being included in RHEL 4 Update 5 as to make RHEL 4 Update 5 easier to migrate into a Xen virtual machine running on top of RHEL 5... which sounds interesting although no technical details were given.

Then the RHEL 4 Update 5 Beta docs disappeared and were replaced by the RHEL 5 Beta docs. :)