RHEL 5.5 Release notes posted

[dan_maran]

Redhat has posted the release notes for the upcoming release of RHEL 5.5 with many major improvements.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red...Release_Notes/

Notable for desktop users(wait I thought Redhat didn't care for the desktop :/)

The iwlwifi drivers for Intel wireless network adapters have been updated. Devices in this hardware line support 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n wireless protocols. This update provides new support for iwl6000 and iwl1000 devices, and enhanced support for iwl5000, iwl4965 and iwl3945 devices.
The rt2x00 drivers for wireless devices has been updated. This update refreshes the drivers for the Ralink rt2400pci, rt2500pci, rt2500usb, rt61pciand rt73usb chipsets, and the drivers for the rtl8180 and rtl8187 Realtek chipsets.
The ath9k driver for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN adapters from has been enabled.

7. Desktop Updates
Open Office
OpenOffice.org is an Open Source, multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation manager. Open Office has been updated, providing many bugfixes and enhancements, including support for Microsoft Office 2007 OOXML formats.
Metacity
Metacity, the default window manager for the GNOME desktop has been updated, providing enhancements, additional GConf keys to control the the behavior of metacity and bug fixes.

Plus many more, Samba and Storage drivers are a big win in this one it looks like.

Still no mention of RHEL 6 (crickets chirping......)

[mack_guy911]

any one idea which version of gnome is default in RHEL 5.5

as far as i know in redhat 5.4 its 2.16 as default

which we get on centOS and scientific linux ??

[dan_maran]

Gnome desktop package will be the same throughout the 5.x release cycle with updates and patches applied.

[dan_maran]

Dag has some more information here:
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/rhel-55-beta-released