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Michael Hoffman (Blog) - January 2, 2007 4:51 PM
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Red Hat remains one of the most popular flavors of the open source operating system

Red Hat will soon release Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), its enterprise Linux product on February 28, with major virtualization technology as one of the operating system's highlights.  Originally slated to be released by the end of 2006, Red Hat began giving itself some room to work with when the first RHEL 5 beta was released in September.  The second OS beta was released in November.

The company is determined to released a gold version of RHEL 5 on February 28, according to Chief Executive Matthew Szulik.  Analysts have confirmed that a several month delay to iron out remaining bugs and flaws should be beneficial.

Red Hat's latest operating system is based on the 2.6.18 version of the Linux kernel, while RHEL 4 is based on the 2.6.9 kernel.  Xen virtualization, software that allows a single PC run multiple operating systems at once, is one of the key features included with RHEL 5.

Red Hat still remains one of the most popular flavors of Linux.  As RHEL 5 will be released on the market soon, Novell has already started shipping Xen with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system.  Another major competitor, Oracle, announced in October that it would be releasing a free RHEL and sell its own support for it.

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Virtualization
By Goty on 1/3/07, Rating: 0
RE: Virtualization
By dolcraith on 1/3/2007 11:12:46 AM , Rating: 3
Again, the whole point in going with RedHat or any other "non-free" distro is the fact that you're paying them for support and to actively develop/produce a better product. Know that most of the free distros always have a potential to suddenly die. You pay them so you have a stable system that will be supported in the long run.


RE: Virtualization
By averaesaveraesky on 1/4/2007 11:59:04 PM , Rating: 2
Support is where all the money is at anyways. well as long as they don't outsource it to India...


RE: Virtualization
By cubdukat on 1/3/2007 11:13:35 AM , Rating: 2
Maybe this is something beyond Xen. I haven't used Xen and don't know what it's capable of, but I would hope that if Red Hat's going to make this kind of announcement, it's not going to be to say we're adding capabilities that everyone else has--especially not given their position in the market.

No, I suspect that this is probably a new product, maybe even something exclusive to Red Hat.


RE: Virtualization
By phx1134 on 1/3/2007 1:24:31 PM , Rating: 2
No, it's Xen. Red Hat just didn't feel that the technology was sufficiently mature until recently, while Novell shipped SLES 10 with Xen in early 2006. My understanding is that Red Hat has done some pretty serious work on both the underlying Xen code and their own management programs for it.


What I never get is
By shaw on 1/4/2007 4:30:27 PM , Rating: 2
Okay from my understanding there was Unix, from the ashes of Unix you get Linux and BSD. BSD is the superior incarnation of Unix and Linux is the inferior incarnation (as discribed by Matthew Strebe). So why does Linux gets all the attention but the only major thing out of BSD is OSX?




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