IBM and Red Hat Announce New Development Innovations in Linux Kernel

IBM and Red Hat Announce New Development Innovations in Linux Kernel

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat, the world’s two largest commercial Linux developers, today announced developers at the companies’ world renowned Linux labs have collaborated to integrate new technologies in the Linux kernel that will help customers improve efficiency and gain a competitive edge in their industries.

Developers at IBM’s Linux Technology Center, which has some 600 engineers in 40 locations worldwide, collaborated with Red Hat’s Engineering team to integrate improved virtualization features, security enhancements, and “Real-Time Linux” capabilities into the Linux kernel. Hundreds of IBM and Red Hat developers work full-time on making Linux better as part of the open source community.

With today’s announcement, the companies said new virtualization and security capabilities in the Linux kernel will also be available in the new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. “Real-Time Linux” technologies are currently being incorporated into the kernel and will be extended to IBM and Red Hat customers in a future offering. The companies announced IBM is currently testing and certifying RHEL 5 across all of its standards-based middleware and servers and that IBM also plans to provide services and support for RHEL 5 as well.

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