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Red Hat has announced the availability of a beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3, the third update to the stable RHEL 5 series: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 5.3 for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products. This beta release includes the following improvements: support for up to 126 CPUs in the x86_64 Hypervisor; support for up to 1 TB memory per host on x86_64; cluster mirror support (2-leg mirrors only); NetworkManager 0.7; updated graphics drivers; re-based CUPS (print server), now with full Kerberos support; initial implementation of userspace tracing; root and swap encryption support in the installer; hibernate / resume support with encrypted disks; SELinux enablement of new NetworkManager and audit functionality; re-based samba from 3.0.28 to 3.0.32 which supports Windows Vista...." Read the detailed release announcement for a comprehensive list of changes and known issues. This beta release is available to existing RHEL subscribers as an update via the yum update utility or as an ISO image download from Red Hat Networks. |
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