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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

SVN: Four good reasons to switch to RHEL5

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6991009676.html

Not sure if I’ve mentioned it before, but SVN brings up RHEL5 shipping with 170 SELinux policies. I know quite a few people who have consistently voiced that SELinux in RHEL4 was essentially worthless b/c it was too difficult to manage. This should help :)

Oh yeah, and this to:

IBM hardware and RHEL 5 are already being evaluated for Common Criteria EAL (Evaluated Assurance Level) 4+, LSPP (Labeled Security Protection Profile), RBAC (Role Based Access Control Protection Profile), and CAPP (Controlled Access Protection Profile) security certifications.

And then there’s real time Linux. This is not just weather forecasting and weapons systems type workloads. I’m trying to think of a better name for it… maybe “Enterprise Real Time” -> but the real time extensions with the Linux kernel create an enormous opportunity for users to take workloads that require low latencies, guaranteed response times, and other similar characteristic and run them on a real time kernel. You wouldn’t believe the impact of running a database, market data feed, SOA ESB, or directory server on a RT kernel – just wait. :)

 IBM and Red Hat are also delivering a new real-time Linux application development and deployment platform. This new platform includes IBM WebSphere Real Time, a real-time J2SE (Java 2 Platform Standard Edition) Java Virtual Machine, with a real-time version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM System x and BladeCenter AMD- and Intel-based servers.