SysAdmin’s Diary

I just received my printed copy of Network World Asia, May 2007 edition last Saturday. Normally, the topics are quite general and do not attracted me much. Nevertheless, this edition is quite special to me. Why, because there is a review on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5), written by Tom Henderson and Rand Dvorak.

Digital version of this article is available from Network World Asia website.

Sex appeal doesn’t seem to be the focus of this release. Instead, Red Hat makes a strong statement in its competitive infrastructure in the form well-executed virtualization and user session controls in its RHEL5 release. The aggressive number of components inside this operating system still beg to be sewn together more comprehensively with better administrative tools, but the fundamentals are definitely in there.

Tom Henderson is principal of, and Rand Dvorak is a researcher for ExtremeLabs in Indianapolis. Both are members of the Network World Lab Alliance, a cooperative of the premier reviewers (www.networkworld.com/alliance). This article first appeared in Network World.