Thursday, March 15, 2007
Red Hat 5 Released
Not Red Hat Linux 5 (which was released in 1997), but Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, released today. Shortly after watching the launch webcast, I went up to Red Hat and plunked down $80 for my own personal basic RHEL 5 Desktop subscription. Took about an hour for my sub to be recognized by Red Hat Network, but I got “pending” access right away and so could immediately start downloading the isos. Had to abort after a half hour because of the crummy bandwidth into the branch office I work out of. I later continued the download when I got home, where my local cable company consistently delivers a megabits-speed connection.
What I’m really looking forward to is finally getting a chance to work with a production-ready installation of xen virtualization. Both at work and home I’ve used VMWare extensively to build out whole test networks on a single box. It will be interesting to see how an open source xen, integrated into RHEL, fares.