Nov 07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 released.
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.
