First look: Red Hat 6 built for the long haul
Toward the end of June, Red Hat plans to release the second beta to the much-anticipated Red Hat 6.0. We recently had the opportunity to test the initial beta of Red Hat 6.0 and found the improvements encouraging, to say the least.
According to Gunnar Hellekson, chief technology strategist for Red Hat U.S. Public Sector, the advancements in Red Hat 6.0 are intended to be “supportable for an entire seven-year life cycle.” And in our analysis it seems as though Red Hat has thought of just about everything necessary to produce an operating system that can withstand the test of time.
Some new features for the less Linux-savvy users in your agency include the ability to place them in a “Kiosk” environment where they can have restricted access to a full version of the desktop OS. This feature is ideal for schools or public libraries, where you don’t want users to have access to the hard drive or system memory, but are permitted basic software access such as Internet or printer support. It gives them all the support they need without any of the danger.
In practice, we were able to do everything
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