Red Hat and announced the launch of the third update of the current stable version of its leading Linux. From there we learned that the main developments in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (RHEL) include, among many others:
More scalability of x86-64 virtualised environments.
Up to 32 virtual CPUs with 80 GB of RAM. Physical servers with up to 126 CPUs and 1TB of RAM.
Procesadors support for Intel Core i7 (Nehalem).
With "profits" as measured by the Red Hat Performance Engineering Group.
Inclusion of OpenJDK.
The implementation of 100% Open Source Jave SE 6.

It also published a report on risks that says that since the release of RHEL 5, each received a critical vulnerability discovered security update was reported the same day or the next business day.

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