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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Apr 26 13:52:08 2005
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:43:30 -0400
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Good Day,
We are pleased to announce that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 release
effort is moving forward. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 is Red Hat's
premier, enterprise grade version of the Linux operating system. It is
the successor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. We hope to fully support
version 4.0 and give customers the option to upgrade from 3.0 to 4.0 as
quickly as possible.
Notable Features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 include:
Based on the latest Kernel, version 2.6
New Network Manager GUI to configure Network
New Plug and Play hardware support system.
SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) support
Firefox
New OpenOffice Version
Evolution 2.0
GNOME 2.8
Standardized ABI (Application Binary Interface)
X server from X.org replaces server from the XFree86 project.
For a complete list of new features, please reference the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.0 release notes:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/notes/ or
the product overview:
http://www.redhat.com/whitepapers/rhel/INS0002US_RHEL_collateral.pdf or
visit the Red Hat Enterprise Linux site:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Release Team will send updates
throughout the process. For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.0 and the release effort, see the Release Notebook at
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/rhe.
If you have questions, suggestions, or would like to participate in the
release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, please contact the team via
email at rhe-release@mit.edu.
Share and enjoy,
Bill Cattey
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Product Release Coordinator
Software Release Team
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
