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By Sean Michael Kerner
September 12, 2006

Those itching to get their hands on Red Hat's next version of Enterprise Linux now have a chance. Red Hat's community of enterprise users is now testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Beta 1, code-named Tikanga. Though some had expected the first beta of RHEL 5 sooner, a Red Hat spokesperson told internetnews.com that it is progressing according to schedule and the company is pleased to now release a public beta.

RHEL 5 will be the first major version update to Red Hat's flagship distribution since February 2005. But that doesn't mean Red Hat and its distributions have been stagnant this whole time. The company has released four incremental RHEL 4 updates, the most recent in August. Red Hat's Fedora Core community Linux distribution has gone through several version updates since RHEL 4 was first released and is now on the verge of its Fedora Core 6 release for early October.

According to Red Hat, the development of RHEL 5 is closely aligned with Fedora Core 6 and the upstream community. Among the key new features in RHEL 5 is the inclusion of Xen Virtualization, which is one of the main release drivers. Xen has appeared in Fedora Core since version 4 and has since improved in subsequent releases to ensure better integration.

For its Red Hat Enterprise debut, Red Hat has put its Xen implementation through extensive testing and hardening to ensure what it hopes will be reliable enterprise production deployment. Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 already ships with Xen.

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