Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 has received the Operating System and Server Product of the Year award at the Techworld Network Awards 2005, which was presented a Gala Dinner in Central London last week.

Techworld is a leading media company providing news and features on infrastructure and networking technology with a market-leading reach into the technical community in the UK enterprise computing market. The Operating System and Server Product of the Year award recognizes companies who have delivered a smart, innovative server solution that enabled businesses to manage risk, increase productivity or gain other business advantages.

Launched in February 2005, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 enables enterprise organisations to realise the benefits of open source innovation throughout their IT environment, particularly in the areas of performance and security. Red Hat Enterprise Linux proves that Linux solutions can effectively eliminate for the need for Solaris in the enterprise.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
14 February 2005

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 was released today. You can download your copy from our RHEL support page. This version includes numerous changes including the Linux 2.6 kernel and Security Enhanced Linux. You may want to familiarize yourself with these concepts before upgrading your RHEL 3 system. RHEL 4 supports numerous hardware platforms including:

* Intel x86-compatible (32bit)
* Intel Itanium (64bit)
* Advanced Micro Devices AMD64 (64bit) and Intel EM64T
* IBM POWER series (eServer iSeries and eServer pSeries)
* IBM Mainframe (eServer zSeries and S/390)

Desktop improvements include the Firefox web browser, Evolution 2.0 for email, calendaring, and contact management, OpenOffice.org office suite, GAIM instant messenger, The GIMP v.2 image tool, and Vino VNC. Red Hat Desktop 4 also includes RealPlayer 10 for SMIL, MP3, Flash, and RealAudio/RealVideo support.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is the first commercial product to include Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). SELinux is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) security system for Linux, which allows finer-grain control over which users and what processes can access the filesystem. By default, a targeted policy is enabled. The default targeted policy affects the following daemons only: dhcpd, httpd, mysqld, named, nscd, ntpd, portmap, postgres, snmpd, squid, and syslogd.

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Linux in Government: The End Game for Vendor Lock-In
01 August 2005

Open-source and standards compliant Linux quickly is becoming the enabler in today's complex IT infrastructures.

The days of putting up with frozen screens, viruses, worms, unpatched systems and applications and bad system management practices are coming to a swift end. All of the marketing hype in the world cannot make Microsoft a better system. It's time finally to admit that you can search the Internet faster with Google and its Linux technology than with your own desktop. Enterprises might consider that fact when starting to think about consolidating their business processes.

...In the last five years, Linux has proven to have a worthy paradigm for collaboration and it makes effective use of the Internet. Using Web service technologies and open standards allows enterprises to respond to security threats while providing higher levels of customer satisfaction and containing costs. The opportunity to use Linux exists now. Take the decision to the executive suite and see if it makes sense for you.

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