Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.2 64-bit is available on select ThinkStation workstations.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 contains more than 1200 components with development spanning over a two year period, so there are a huge number of new features covering a broad range of functionality. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides CIOs and IT managers with the means to reduce costs while improving operational flexibility throughout their computing infrastructure.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers your choice of:
- Applications - Thousands of certified ISV applications
- Deployment - Including standalone or virtual servers, cloud computing, or software appliances
Virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Virtualization is provided in all Server products and is optionally available for Client products
- Storage and extended server virtualization are provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
- Red Hat Network supports virtualized guest operating systems
- virt-manager, libvirt/virsh management tools
Kernel and Performance
- Based on the Linux 2.6.18 kernel
- Support for multi-core processors
- Broad range of new hardware support
- Updated crash dump capability provided by Kexec/Kdump
- Support for Intel Network Accelerator Technology (IOAT)
- Numerous enhancements for large SMP systems
- Enhanced pipe buffering
- IPv4/IPv6 fragmentation offload and buffer management
- Dynamically switchable per-queue I/O schedulers
- Kernel buffer splice capability for improved I/O buffer operations
Security
- SELinux enhancements include Multi-Level Security and targeted policies for all services
- SEtroubleshooter GUI simplifies SELinux management
- Integrated directory and security capabilities
- IPSEC enhancements improve security and performance
- ExecShield enhancements, such as a call frame Canary word, strengthen hacker defenses
- New Audit features provide powerful new search/reporting and real-time monitoring
Networking & Interoperability
- Network storage enhancements include Autofs, FS-Cache, and iSCSI support
- Pv6 support and conformance enhancements
- Improved Microsoft ® file/print and Active Directory integration
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