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Red Hat Operating Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS - For your mission-critical
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES - For your small and mid-range servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS - For your technical & design workstation clients
Red Hat Desktop - For your secure, managed clients
Red Hat Desktop
Red Hat Desktop is the newest member of the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux family. It provides a high-quality, full-featured
client system that is suitable for use in a wide range of desktop deployments.
While primarily focused on enterprise and commercial markets, the
features and stability of Red Hat Desktop also make it attractive for
use in small and medium business environments. Its configurations ensure
that the deployment delivers the highest levels of manageability and
security. Red Hat Desktop supports single CPU systems with up to 4GB
of main memory.
Red Hat Desktop is available in packages of either 10 or 50 units
for mass deployments of consistently configured clients. It is fully
compatible with other members of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product
family and provides complementary technology and services.
New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 3
Introduced in September 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
version 3, includes a broad range of new features:
- Support for multiple architectures: Intel X86, Intel Itanium,
AMD AMD64 and IBM zSeries, POWER Series, and S/390. (With Update
2, delivered
in May 2004, support for Intel EM64T was added)
- 4-4 memory split:
Increased kernel & user address space for
X86 systems, allowing support for 64GB of main memory and larger
user applications.
- Native Posix Thread Library: A new high-performance multi-threading
capability provides improved performance for multi-threaded applications.
- Based on Linux 2.4.21 kernel: Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses the latest
stable Linux kernel with numerous additions from the Linux 2.5/2.6 kernels.
- Improved scalability: Support for larger SMP, memory and I/O systems allows
version 3 to support servers approximately twice the size of version 2.1.
- Forward compatibility: Version 3 includes compatibility libraries so it
can run version 2.1 applications without modification.
- Standards and Certification: LSB 1.3 and NIAP Common Criteria. Section
508 support
- Improved desktop: Includes Red Hat's Bluecurve graphical user interface,
and a comprehensive set of personal productivity applications.
- Enhanced security: Includes several new security features, including support
for file system ACLs.
- Bundled Stronghold: Red Hat's secure web server solution, previously available
as a separate layered product for Enterprise Linux AS, has been updated to
Apache version 2 and included as part of the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux
product set.
- Improved compiler/tools: Includes GCC 3.2 and debugging/profiling tools.
- Logical Volume Manager: Provides enterprise-strength storage management.
- Diskless systems: Supports deployment of diskless clients.
- Enhanced Java: Java implementations from BEA and IBM
- Enhanced networking: Includes numerous features to improve stability & performance.
- Support for Samba 3 provides numerous new
features:
- Greatly improved interoperability with Microsoft Active Directory.
Samba 3.0 is able to join an ADS realm as a member server
and authenticate users
using LDAP/Kerberos
- Improved Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support
including publishing printer attributes in active directory
- Support
for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba domain
and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs
- Support for establishing
trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers
- Support
for client and server SMB signing to ensure compatibility with
default Windows 2003 security settings
- Improved ACL mapping
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