End of the Line for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Linux Today

End of the Line for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 23, 2014

In March of 2007, Red Hat first announced its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5( RHEL) platform. Though it might seem quant today, RHEL 5 was particularly notable in that it was the first major release for Red Hat to emphasize virtualization, which is a feature all modern distros now take for granted.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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