Red Hat launches Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 5 (RHEL5.5)

Last Wednesday, Red Hat released update 5, the latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (RHEL5). This update adds support for new hardware platforms and improves virtualization interoperability with Windows 7. It adds support for larger amounts of memory to allow more guests per physical server, and supports Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV). The new hardware platforms supported by Red Hat include Intel Nehalem EX, AMD Opteron 6000 Series (Magny Cours), and IBM Power 7. Source: [redhat.com]