[Unix-help] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Release Underway

[William Cattey]

Good Day,

IS&T has begun a Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux Release Project.

The work of the project will be to perform basic install and update  
testing of the new Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux, and to make  
appropriate updates to IS&T documentation so that customers will be  
able to make a smooth transition from RHEL 4 to RHEL 5.

The RHEL 5 Linux Release Project will also contain some mini-release  
projects to update critical IS&T-supplied software.

Notable features of RHEL 5 include:

	Re-arrangement of product offerings from AS, ES, WS and Desktop to a  
diverse array of variations on a Client and a Server product.
	Significant re-arrangement of what packages are included in which  
version.  (For example, Server comes without OpenOffice.)
	Update of OpenOffice to version 2.0 on RHEL 5 Client.
	Change from the up2date protocol to yum for Red Hat Network updates.
	Integration of the Xen virtualization system into RHEL 5 Server, and  
the Multi-OS option for RHEL 5 Client.
	Updates to hardware device drivers, security fixes, performance  
enhancements, bug fixes, and updated applications and services.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release Notes can be found on the RHEL 5  
documentation site:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/index.html

The Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux Release Team will publish updates on  
project progress in the Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux Release Notebook at
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/rhe.

If you have questions, suggestions, or would like to participate in the
release of Red Hat Enterprise 5 Linux, please contact the team via
email at rhe-release at mit.edu.

William Cattey
Linux Platform Coordinator
MIT Information Services & Technology

W92-176, 617-253-0140, wdc at mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/