Red Hat has released new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improvements including better virtualisation and clustering features, to make the operating system a more stable platform for server farms.
Linux seller Red Hat has begun beta testing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, its next high-end product due to ship this autumn in the U.S. with support for several new servers.
Red Hat has released the second beta of its upcoming enterprise Linux offering.
Red Hat on Friday released a test version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, its first product to incorporate the Xen virtualisation technology.
IBM has launched a public beta of the AIX 6 operating system, which incorporates a number of major changes including a more complete virtualisation offering.
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The first public beta of the combined Linux distribution will appear later this month, but it will have Red Hat's dominance to contend with.
Red Hat released a new test version of its Linux operating system on Monday along with a new development process designed to include outside programmers.
Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, will begin offering a higher-end and more specialised version of Linux later this year that won't be as easy to find as the current all-purpose package.
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