Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Beta

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) shipped this past March and about four months later we have the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. RHEL 5.1 on all supported architectures is a minor update that offers virtualization improvements, laptop and desktop improvements, storage improvements, and a variety of other improvements. The virtualization improvements include complete Itanium2 virtualization support, support for 32-bit PV guests on 64-bit hosts, and libvirt updates. There is a horde of known issues with RHEL 5.1 Beta, but if you're interested check out the Red Hat announcement. The final release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is slated for later this year.