What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / raj

of course RHEL5 security is the main advantage than RHEL4
in RHEL5 it has the updates like XEN, Yum and many
additional packages which supports all the third party softwares

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / jeetendra parekh

XEN, YUM and improved SELinux
all the features updated with better options

Better GUI support then RHEL4
YUM over RPM package management

IPTables and SELinux for more secure environment

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / shyam kumar

differnece between rhel 4 and rhel 5


rhel4 rhel5
no yum server yum server
selinux Advanced selinux
secure more secure
no cdkey cd key
--- virtualization
mim 256 mb ram 512 ram
--- better support for
Red Hat Directory

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / hrithik

First thing is more features,secure & faster.

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / deepak verma

first diff is it is more update and more fetures.

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / amit kumar ghosh

difference between RHEL 4 and RHEL 5
1)In RHEL 4 SELinux Block only 13 services, But on RHEL 5
SElinux Block 80 services
2) RHEL 4 have ext2 filesystem, but RHEL 5 we have ext3
filesystem That support Journal
3)RHEL 4 have no virtualization Feature, but in RHEL 5 we
have virtualization with Hypervisor-V
4)In RHEL 4 we have no Yum, But in RHEL 5 we have Yum available

any many more....... need more time to describe it

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / nitins

A comparison of RHEL versions

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / mcmarc

virtualization
ext4

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / karthik sudhan

1. Yum
2. Visualization
3. License Key
4. Ext4 (on latest version)

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What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?..

Answer / vijay b.

RHEL-5 => yum server , Xen , virtualization, support
ext3,as well as ext4 also yum update library on net
RHEL -4 => Nothing as above

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