Red Hat recently announced the availability of its much awaited release RHEL 5.4. Besides regular updates, the highlight of this release is its powerful Virtualization technologies. The newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 update is the first product to deliver commercial quality open source virtualization featuring Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology. Experience the power of virtualized computing on your server and client systems.
Today marks the release of the fourth update in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family. As you would expect, the press release and our technical overview highlight what is new in this update. The advancements in virtualization technology, I/O performance and system tools are worth talking about and, at the risk of being redundant, we’ll certainly cover some of them here. However, we’re going to start with what is not new and why this release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, fits into the way our customers manage their technology portfolio.
One item that is not new is the consistency of the ABI/API. As with all updates, the enhancements are incremental and non-disruptive to legacy hardware and all applications. Our process is designed to allow applications that ran on 5.3 to continue to run on 5.4 without modification. And, when it is time to release update 5.5, those same applications won’t be affected. This nexus of compatibility, consistency and support across a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release contributes to a stable, long-lived platform with the potential to span multiple generations of system hardware for our customers. For ISVs, developers and production administrators, their application reliability is expected to increase as we consolidate the security alerts, fixes and enhancements to the underlying operating environment. This is one of the reasons why the number of applications developed and certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is expected to continue to grow.
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