Research Triangle Park, NC — (press release excerpt) — Red Hat, Inc. announced today the availability of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Intel Itanium Processor, which features the Red Hat Linux 7.2 operating system with the 2.4 kernel and ext3 journaling file system. This configuration supports the very large address space of Itanium-based systems and scales efficiently to eight or more Itanium processors… running as a single system image. A more complete set of configuration tools and security enhancements are also available in this new release from Red Hat.

Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Itanium Processor is designed for developing and porting applications that require superior performance on high-end servers and workstations. This release is equally suited to porting 32-bit UNIX applications to Itanium-based systems, as well as developing new applications for Itanium-based systems that are designed for superior performance on high-end servers and workstations for mission-critical reliability.

New Features and Benefits of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Itanium Processor include . . .

• The 2.4.9 Linux kernel for increased scalability
  
• ext3 journaling file system for data reliability
  
• Network Configuration, User Management, and Hardware Viewing tools for infrastructure and development
  
• Firewall Configuration during installation and Red Hat Network for added security
  
• Improved USB support
  
• Nautilus file manager
  
• Latest versions of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments

Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Itanium Processor is now available for purchase or download and from hardware partners in the coming weeks.

 
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