Red Hat Launches Enterprise Linux 5

Redhat today launched much awaited version of their next release of Enterprise Linux, RHEL 5. This version had been under development since last 2 years and with lot of ideas and inputs from its users, the new release features some of the much needed technologies for making our lives more easy. This release included 1200 components which were developed in last two years and here is a quick run down of some of its features:

RHEL 5 is based on the

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Run Your Browsers and Programs in a Virtual and Isolated Environment with Sandboxie

What are we talking about here? Well, as we all know that running a browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox could open your system to various Spywares, Adwares and Trojans and since options are limited on your Windows system, there is perhaps only one way of protecting yourself and it’s by installing Anti Spyware, Anti-Virus and some other softwares. It’s just not browsers which could download unwanted things to your systems but also some applications that connects to Internet for

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Virtualization: It’s time for network-based virtualization

While many of us are familiar with Operating System virtualization, the Network-based virtualization is also catching up fast. Major advantages of Network based virtualization are:

Reduced investment and operating costs with increased security.
Partitioning a single physical network into multiple virtual networks.
Shared services across all partitions of the network.
Consolidation of many physical networks into a single infrastructure.

Users will see a single infrastructure while it might have been built out of several hundreds of networks. They will experience a less cluttered and virtualized

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Virtualizaton: Better Resource Utilization and reduced Total Cost of Ownership

A virtual machine is like running a PC on a PC. You can run Linux on Windows XP or run Windows Server 2003 on a Windows XP system, as simple as that. A VM [Virtual Machine], enables IT professionals and developers to test and evaluate their applications and other tools without having a need to install it on separate physical servers or systems. Imagine a developer who would like to have 20 desktops to connect to his centralized application and

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