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Hat领导着Linux的开发、部署和经营，从嵌入式设备到安全网页服务器，它都是用开源软件作为Internet基础设施解决方案的领头羊。Red
Hat由有远见的企业家Bob Young和Marc
Ewing创建于1994年，它以源码开发作为营业模型的基础。它也代表了软件开发行业的一次根本转变。软件的原始代码对所有人都可以获得，使用该软件的
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Linux、开发人员和嵌入式技术，以及培训、管理和技术支持。这份开源革新通过称之为Red Hat
Network的Internet平台传递给客户们。Red Hat的总部设在美国北卡罗莱纳州首府罗利。 Today we released the seventh update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, marking the point where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 enters the autumn of its life cycle. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is now marching toward the Production 2 life cycle phase — formerly known as the “Transition” or “Deployment” phase. From this point forward, the amount of change introduced for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 minor releases is decreasing constantly as Red Hat focuses its efforts on addressing continued stabilization of the release. Aside from a broad range of fixes and refreshed hardware enablement, a number of key product enhancements were included in Enterprise Linux 4.7, among them: Upgrade to Firefox 3 Support for SHA-256 / SHA-512 password encryption in order to meet government requirements Added the aide (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) package to allow file system integrity testing Systemtap production support Added tick divider capability, helping to avoid time-skew when running Enterprise Linux 4 as a fully virtualized guest on Enterprise Linux 5 or VMWare virtualization Added IPv6 support for iSCSI Numerous autofs improvements As an effect of yesterday’s news on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle update, there will be one additional update for the Production 1 life cycle, formerly known as “Full Support”, phase of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 is currently projected to be available in early 2009. Following Enterprise Linux 4.8, the release will enter the Production 2 life cycle phase. |
