Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 surprises For administrators
Administrators who have run Linux, or garden-variety Unix variants, have learned to live inside the Unix system administration and security models. They’re still there, in the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 distribution (RHEL5). But there’s a chance that a migration to RHEL5 can cause things to break and stop working if you’re not aware of the changes.
The changes come on four levels: Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) deployment, Xen virtualization, new versions of important software packages, and the onset of IPv6. It’s absolutely possible to deploy and ignore these feature sets that Red Hat bundles into RHEL5 and lead a happy life. Your resulting life may be bereft of both the newest features -- stable and predictable server paravirtualization -- but you’ll have an up-to-date distribution with a full kit of the latest applications.
SELinux
Red Hat first delivered SELinux in RHEL4.
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