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Red Hat领导着Linux的开发、部署和经营，从嵌入式设备到安全网页服务器，它都是用开源软件作为Internet基础设施解决方案的领头羊。Red Hat由有远见的企业家Bob Young和Marc Ewing创建于1994年，它以源码开发作为营业模型的基础。它也代表了软件开发行业的一次根本转变。软件的原始代码对所有人都可以获得，使用该软件的开发人员可以自由地对其作改进。其结果是迅速的革新。Red Hat解决方案包括Red Hat Linux、开发人员和嵌入式技术，以及培训、管理和技术支持。这份开源革新通过称之为Red Hat Network的Internet平台传递给客户们。Red Hat的总部设在美国北卡罗莱纳州首府罗利。
Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1, the first update to the RHEL 5 product line: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. This update includes the following enhancements: completion of virtualization support on Itanium2 platforms; improved support for Fully Virtualized (FV) guests; improved ACPI power management support including support for S3 suspend to RAM and S4 hibernate; ext3 filesystem now fully supports filesystem sizes of up to 16 TB; IPv6 improvements; hardware support enhancements; Samba update for improved interoperability; PAM/Kerberos and NSS-LDAP updates for improved integration in Active Directory environments; improved support for autofs load balancing with replicated servers...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes and enhancements. The RHEL 5.1 ISO images are available to existing RHEL subscribers via Red Hat Networks.
