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        Red Hat, Inc. has released a beta build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.8, the fully-supported legacy line of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 4.8 (Linux kernel 2.6.9-82.EL) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 family of products. This release includes the following improvements: Kerberos 5 utilities are now PAM enabled; updated IPMItool to v1.8.10, Device-mapper to 1.02.28; added router solicitation support; added virtio drivers to support KVM hypervisor environments; added new AMD HDMI audio support to ATI HDMI; updated ALSA hda driver update from upstream; fixed and properly detect pmtimer on ASUS a8v motherboard; improved reliability of Autofs; fixed various short packet handling for NFSv4 readdir and sunrpc issues...." Read the rest of the release announcement further details and known issues. The ISO images of this beta release are available to all existing RHEL subscribers via the Red Hat Networks service.（责任编辑：A6）