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New Red Hat Linux’s top five features

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 3, 2009

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“I’ve been using RHEL, and its twins, CentOS and Oracle
Unbreakable Linux since day one, and I like them a lot for business
server use. Of all these releases, I think RHEL 5.4 is the most
impressive of the lot. Why? Well, I’ll tell you.

“1) Baked in virtualization. This edition of RHEL incorporates
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). KVM, unlike VMware or Citrix
Systems’ XenServer, isn’t an add-on virtualization program. It’s
actually part of the operating system. Indeed, as the name
suggests, it’s built right in the Linux kernel.”


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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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