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SearchOpenSource: Touring RHEL 5 Beta 1: New Features Make Upgrades Tempting

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 27, 2006

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
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“With the recent public release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
beta 1, system administrators like myself (and their IT managers)
may face major system upgrades in the near future. Given that I’ve
got until 2012 before maintenance support for RHEL 4 ends, I need
to see real value to convince me to upgrade, especially when you
consider RHEL 4 has proved to meet the needs of my organization
nicely.

“So, the question is why should enterprises upgrade from earlier
releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux when RHEL 5 is officially
released…?”


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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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