Linux-Watch: Here Come the RHEL 5 Clones

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"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Red Hat should be flattered. Less than two weeks after the company introduced RHEL 5 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5), StartCom Ltd. released the first RHEL 5 clone, StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0.

"StartCom announced on its website that it was launching 'a release candidate of our upcoming StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5.0.0 codenamed 'Kishuf.' We invite anybody interested to install this test release and help us find eventual problems in this distribution prior to its official release...'"

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