ShareThisLast night I purchased Red Hat Enterprise 5. It's been a couple of years since I did the same with Red Hat Enterprise 4, but we want to upgrade our Lotus Domino server at Franklinville Central School to Domino 8 and in order for that to happen we must have Red Hat Enterprise 5 running. Educational institutions can purchase an unsupported edition of Red Hat Enterprise 5 for $60.   That's a great value. Add to that you get all the Xen virtualization software too. That's up to 40 units at $60 per license. This assumes you can support yourself which I can and have in the past. I cut my teeth in Linux on Red Hat 5. Red Hat Enterprise 5 has come a long way from those days.  I've got Red Hat 5 installed in a virtual machine on my laptop for now using VirtualBox 1.6 from Sun. I'm going to experiment with Red Hat 5 for Xen virtualization too. I've been looking at a number of different virtualization packages for our server farm and those include VMWare ESX, VirtualBox, Xen, Suse Linux Enterprise with Xen and now Red Hat 5 with Xen.  I'm seriously hoping now that Red Hat solves the mild dilemma. I still love Red Hat. They've got great utilities for managing a Linux server. I also downloaded Hardy Heron, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS this weekend and it's installed in yet another VM on my Dell Inspiron 6400. I'm very impressed with the improvements in VirtualBox too as a host software. I'm running it on Ubuntu 7.10. I've done a great deal of reading this weekend and now its time to play. I'll write more in the coming days as I react to some of my new adventures.