Vlogcanic

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is available as of today.

This is a commercial distro and a very important one, used primarily in service tasks.

It features a custom kernel based on 2.6.18 called kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 with many interesting features which, according to the announcement are:

• Improved ACPI power management support including support for S3 suspend to RAM and S4 hibernate
• Support for installation to and boot from dm-multipath
• Updated SATA subsystem
• Ext3 filesystem now fully supports filesystem sizes of up to 16TB
• Updated CIFS to version 1.48aRH
• IPMI and HPI updates
• Updated Infiniband support to OFED1.2 version including RDMA over Ethernet
• Expanded in-kernel socket API
• IPv6 improvements
• Added support for shared page table for hugetlb pages

Some new drivers are included and many more have been updated or enhaced.

Other notable new features are in the area of virtualization and architecture support.

Now this one isn’t free. Red Hat’s free distro is not this one but Fedora so no download links this time. Keep watch, anway, Fedora 8 is comming out tomorrow if things go as planned.

Until now if you wanted an Live OpenSuse it had to be a LiveDVD instead of a LiveCD and the thing would not install on your computer –it was strictly for use with the DVD-ROM and RAM memory.

Well, not anymore!

As of today there is, at last, a much needed OpenSuse 10.3 new edition in a LiveCD that can also perform an installation to your hard disk. Yeah!

It’s even better than that because it’s not one edition but two: one with Gnome and another one with KDE. Each one of those contains the very same software available in the non-live installation CDs released last month.

There’s a catch, anyway. The new iso images are only available in English 32-bit versions. But it’s good news, nevertheless.

Links to the download images are available at the announcement webpage.