Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 is here

It was only a month ago that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Beta became available. Apparently, the beta-testing went smoothly because today, Red Hat announces that the final version is immediately available. In other words, if you work in IT and your company uses RHEL, you had better buy some Red Bull.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 is designed for those who build and manage large, complex IT projects, especially enterprises that require an open hybrid cloud. From security and networking to virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 provides the capabilities needed to manage these environments, such as tools that aid in quickly tuning the system to run SAP applications based on published best practices from SAP", says the company.

Jim Totton, VP and GM, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat says the operating system "provides the innovation expected from the industry’s leading enterprise Linux operating system while also delivering a mature platform for business operations, be it standardizing operating environments or supporting critical applications. The newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 forms the building blocks of the entire Red Hat portfolio, including OpenShift and OpenStack, making it a perfect foundation for enterprises looking to explore the open hybrid cloud".

The operating system is shipping with kernel 2.6.32-431. To home users, this would appear to be an older kernel, and that is true. However, it is also very stable and reliable -- a must for the enterprise. Other improvements are full support of the Precision Time Protocol, the ability to dynamically enable or disable vCPUs and a centralized certificate trust store.

Will your company be upgrading? Tell me in the comments.