What are the main differences between RHEL4 & RHEL5?
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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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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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Answer / hrithik
First thing is more features,secure & faster.
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Answer / deepak verma
first diff is it is more update and more fetures.
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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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Answer / nitins
A comparison of RHEL versions
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/
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Answer / karthik sudhan
1. Yum
2. Visualization
3. License Key
4. Ext4 (on latest version)
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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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