The long-awaited Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is finally out.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is supposed to be more robust, fast, feature-rich, and more operational.
Kernel and Performance
* Based on the Linux 2.6.18 kernel
* Support for multi-core processors
* Broad range of new hardware support
* Updated crash dump capability provided by Kexec/Kdump
* Support for Intel Network Accelerator Technology (IOAT)
* Numerous enhancements for large SMP systems
* Enhanced pipe buffering
* IPv4/IPv6 fragmentation offload and buffer management
* Dynamically switchable per-queue I/O schedulers
* Kernel buffer splice capability for improved I/O buffer operations
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