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By Stephen Shankland
October 24, 2006, 7:00 AM PDT

Red Hat released Fedora Core 6 on Tuesday, its newest hobbyist version of Linux, with an expandable new installation routine and a third try at incorporating Xen virtualization software.

Fedora Core is a free and faster-moving alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which offers long-term support for those who pay annual subscription fees. Fedora Core 6 in effect is a rough draft of RHEL 5, to be released in late 2006 or early 2007.

The biggest change coming with RHEL 5 is Xen, open-source virtualization software that lets multiple operating systems run simultaneously, each in its own separate compartment called a virtual machine. Virtualization, a high-end feature now arriving in x86 servers, lets a single server replace several less efficiently used ones.

Xen appeared in Fedora Core 4 and 5, but the version in Fedora Core 6 should be close to what appears in RHEL 5, said Max Spevack, the Fedora project leader. One major feature is a graphical administration tool to control Xen virtual machines. "Now you can create and delete and start up your Xen instances without having to do it all on the command line," Spevack said.

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