Red Hat has announced the second beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been developed in close cooperation with the Fedora Core 6 and the upstream community. This is the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux release that includes Xen-based open source virtualization technology. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 release contains virtualization support on the x86 and x86_64 architectures as well as a technology preview of Xen for Itanium 2. We are particularly interested in your testing feedback on the virtualization technology." For more information please see the release announcement and read the release notes (x86). Unlike the first RHEL 5 beta, the latest development release is only available to the subscribers of Red Hat Networks.