What's New in Red Hat and the Linux Kernel?

This section details what's new with your version of Red Hat Linux. As a distribution, Red Hat Linux has evolved over the past six years to always include new and up-to-date features of the Linux kernel and software tools. If you're an experienced hand, you'll find that this Red Hat Linux distribution continues with this tradition of improvement, especially in the form of updated software libraries, updated and improved management tools, the latest XFree86 X11 distribution, version 4.0.1, and of course, the latest stable series of the Linux kernel, version 2.2.16.

Linux has gone through a number of major changes in the past six years. Fans from the early years using the then stable 1.2.13 version of ...

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