Customers with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) support contract are now able to download version 5.9 of the company’s Linux distribution. The new release updates RHEL 5 to include Microsoft’s Hyper V driver, OpenJDK 7 and Samba 3.6. This minor version update of RHEL 5 also marks the completion of the first support phase of the revised Red Hat support life cycle; it has taken five years to get to this point – RHEL 5 was introduced in 2007.
The integrated Hyper V driver is designed to make the Linux distribution work better under Microsoft’s hypervisor – for example in clouds with Windows hosts…Read more at The H
