Quoting from CRN:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will enter beta testing in late July and ship in December, executives said Wednesday.
Beta 1 of the server is slated to be available in late July and Beta 2 – which will incorporate the Fedora Core 6 build — is planned for release in mid September, said Daniel Riek, a product manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, based in Westford, Mass.
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RHEL 5 will include core virtualization based on the Xen open source virtualization hypervisor as well as integration with the company’s directory and certificate servers. It will also offer support for Intel and AMD virtualization extensions, stateless Linux clients, single sign-on and an improved driver model for third party ISVs
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“The release schedule depends on Xen readiness … It’s the only real gatekeeper on the schedule,” Carr said. “If Xen isn’t ready, we’ll wait until it is and there isn’t anything else we’ll wait for.”…
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