Show to spotlight new roles for Linux

摘要

This week's LinuxWorld will focus on the maturity of the operating system, with high availability workload management and large multiprocessor system news taking center stage. Vendors such as Sun and HP and users such as Continental Airlines will detail what can be done with the open source platform beyond supporting the traditional infrastructure and file and print workloads. Not that there won't be news around the core operating system. Red Hat is expected to unveil Red Hat Enterprise Unux 4.0, which is built on the 2.6 kernel and is aimed squarely at the corporate data center Red Hat is months behind Novell/SuSE, which launched its 2.6-based SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 in August at LinuxWorld, but it is adding features of particular interest to enterprise customers. National Security Agency-backed Security-Enhanced Unux code will be integrated into the kernel, which will let users put applications in virtual containers and set policies and privilege rights for access to underlying Linux code and other applications.