Dell offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS factory installed on Dell Precision desktop workstations. For new systems with Intel® Extended Memory 64-bit Technology, Dell offers customers their choice of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS versions - 32-bit x86 or 64-bit Intel EM64T. Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS is the desktop/client partner for Enterprise Linux AS and Enterprise Linux ES. It is suited for office productivity applications, software development environments and professional Workstation applications. When configured without a monitor, a Precision Workstation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS is also well suited for use as a compute node in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Overview Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) is the first release from Red Hat to support the 2.6 operating system kernel. This is a significant release as it contains many improved kernel algorithms, all designed to deliver increased performance over the previous release. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 now contains the functional modules from what was previously known as 'SELinux' (Security Enhanced Linux). This offers significantly higher levels of security to Red Hat customers than previous releases, but requires significant (and knowledgeable) administration and configuration. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be available from Dell to support Intel standard IA32 or EM64T technology. When a 64-bit OS and applications are used, EM64T offers customers the ability to run applications that can expand their memory requirements over the standard 4GB process address space normally found on standard IA32 systems. Customers wishing to use this 64 bit extension technology can do so on Dell 8th Generation platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 now contains a much improved logical volume manager, LVM2. This volume manager now offers users the ability to set up volume Read/Write snapshots, configure multi-pathing across FC host adaptors and set up disk mirroring independently of the RAID subsystem. LVM2 provides the basic functionality of commercial volume managers, but is included in the standard software distribution at no extra cost. Comprehensive Linux Support
Dell supports your computer to help ensure the proper hardware functionality. Computers purchased with Red Hat Linux factory installed also come with installation and configuration support from Dell and a one or three year subscription to the Red Hat Network. Red Hat Network allows administrators to efficiently manage the systems on their network. Through a simple user interface, administrators can perform patch management, updates, monitoring, and maintenance.
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