Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Released, Marking last release of Production Phase 1 | Linux Today

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Released, Marking last release of Production Phase 1

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 9, 2013

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 (RHEL) became generally available today. The RHEL 5.9 release first landed in beta in late September and is mostly about new hardware enablement.

It’s also an important release in that RHEL 5.9 is the last minor release in the first Production phase of RHEL.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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