On January 8, 2013 - the world's leading open source solution provider red hat company (the New York stock exchange code: RHT) today announced the launch of RedHatEnterpriseLinux5 secondary version red hat enterprise Linux5.9. This version RedHatEnterpriseLinux5 marks the operating system the second production stage start, also showed the company in order to improve the stability of the products and ensure that users platform value effort. At the same time the red hat through this version of the several new features keep ten years life cycle consistent commitment, these characteristics covers hardware compatibility, security, standard and validation, the developer tools, virtualization and much more.
With all the minor version, the red hat enterprise Linux5.9 can backwards compatible red hat red hat enterprise Linux5 the whole life cycle of the Floating point accelerator: IT will eventually have a free lunch? and software platform. So the red hat enterprise Linux5 version before the compatible hardware and software also continue to apply this kind of minor version. The red hat enterprise Linux5.9 and several improvement, including:
Through the hardware improvement can support the profession leading hardware manufacturers. The red hat enterprise Linux5.9 by supporting the latest version of the CPU, chipset and equipment drive displayed to the full and strong cooperation between leading manufacturers;
Continue to ensure the safety of products, standardization and validation. RedHatEnterpriseLinux kept safe embalm - this is the red hat enterprise Linux5.9 constantly strive to promise. The upgrade version to further strengthen the safety control, verify and check the new password safety degree and support the latest regulatory requirements cryptographic protocols ability. There are also support the use of federal information processing standard (FIPS) mode function. The federal information processing standard (FIPS) mode at present can support RAID equipment search, RAID set activation and function to create, delete, move, reconstruction and display.
New developer tools. The red hat enterprise Linux5.9 add several developers friendly characteristics and tools, including the development and testing through the OpenJDK7 provides the latest version of the open source Java ability. The red hat enterprise Linux5.9 in SystemTap also made a lot of improvement, including compilation of IPv6 network server, client support, take up the space is smaller SystemTap file, faster speed of the program compiled and can support multiple synchronous connection of compiling server.
To strengthen the application software support. The red hat enterprise Linux5.9 contains a new rsyslog5 suit, rsyslog5 version will be upgraded to the main version 5, this version is better than before in RHEL existing rsyslog suit is faster, more reliable. Samba version also upgrade to version 3.6, new features include SMB2 support, an improved print server as well as to all versions the default security Settings improvement.
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