“Just because Red Hat’s leaders are billionaires doesn’t
mean that they’ve stopped working. On Oct. 4, Red Hat Software
released the newest Linux distribution: Red Hat Linux 6.1.”
“While lagging behind its major competitors, Caldera Systems,
SuSE, and TurboLinux (all of which released minor upgrades earlier
this year), Red Hat’s newest release, based on the 2.12 kernel,
raises the Linux operating-system standard a trifle higher.”
That new Linux joins the others in featuring a newer, easier
installation routine. If you do desk installations, you’ll love
that. But what, if it works as advertised, will prove more
interesting is Red Hat’s inclusion of Intel Preboot Execution
Environment (PXE) 2.0 technology. PXE, as part of Intel’s Wired for
Management Baseline 2.0, is supposed to enable a network
administrator to remotely configure systems, with a PXE complaint
BIOS, from a bare hard drive to a functioning Red Hat system
without lifting a finger at the local workstations. The potential
timesaving for mass Red Hat Linux installations is obvious.”