RH0958488, Enterprise Linux Workstation, Standard, 1 Year Subscription, No Media

Easy to Use, Deploy, and Secure

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is built for both the administrator and the end user. Built with the robust and secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux foundation and leading end-user applications and features from the open source community, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is an attractive and highly productive environment for knowledge workers on desktops or laptops.

Client installations can be finely tailored and locked down for simplicity and security for any task workstation. For those who require performance, visualization, and interactivity for simulation and design, Red Hat provides support for the latest graphics cards and true scalability on multi-core systems.

Desktop Features:

Security

Linux has a reputation for being a very secure operating system. Red Hat has extended Linux's security advantage by developing a layered defense scheme for keeping desktops secure.

Featuring:

• more secure applications
• protection against commonly exploited security flaws, e.g. buffer overflows integrated in the standard software stack
• highest-grade protection via the SELinux security feature. Protects system services from attacks, full transparency and is easy to extend and adopt.
• smartcard authentication support

Red Hat makes it easy to secure a desktop deployment against external and internal threats.

Management

Red Hat provides a simple, rapidly-deployable tool that allows a systems administrator to manage a complex, geographically dispersed desktop deployment from a single web-based console.

Red Hat Network allows a system administrator to remotely update, group, deploy, and provision desktop systems. Whether it's 10 or 10,000 desktop systems, the system administration effort is the same. This frees up some of your desktop personnel to be redeployed on other projects.

Interoperability

Not only are the applications bundled with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop interoperable with Microsoft® formats, but Red Hat also includes other technologies to allow a Red Hat desktop to plug-and-play in a Microsoft-centric environment.

Applications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop includes the most popular desktop applications for no additional charge. Fully featured and with intuitive interfaces, these applications make your users productive with little need for retraining.

And all of these applications are interoperable with their Microsoft counterparts. This means you can create, view, and edit Microsoft-formatted documents or email and leverage the investments you have already made.

User experience

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop was designed to create a user experience where everything "just works." This involves major improvements to everything, from OpenOffice and Firefox to networking, laptop support, peripheral support, graphics, and multimedia. All of this ensures that your users are more productive with minimal need for retraining.

New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Your productivity, security and flexibility are enhanced with

• OpenOffice 3 suite
• Email - (openchange MAPI client capability)
• NetworkManager - mobile network connection management
• Cisco IPSEC client compatibility
• Smart Card support
• Encrypted disk (luks)

Designed for task workers. Typically requires a limited set of applications. End user has limited administrative control over the system. System administrators need to be able to pre-configure and remotely manage consistent images across a large number of systems.

Primary applications in use are productivity applications like Firefox, Evolution/Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Planner/TaskJuggler. Primary services in use would be network file systems like SMB/CIFS, NFS, printing services, IM.

Workstations are designed for advanced Linux users. In addition to the tools provided in the Desktop variant, the Workstation variant supports a stand-alone development environment. End users are expected to have local super-user privileges or select super-user privileges.

What's New

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop is the secure and extensible option for business desktops and laptops. A natural and ergonomic presentation is complemented by a full set of productivity applications for email, messaging, and browsing. OpenOffice provides communication and presentation tools that are completely compatible with Microsoft Office. You will find that the top Enterprise Application clients run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop.

• OpenChange allows MAPI access to Microsoft Exchange Server.
• Greatly reduced boot times, improved laptop suspend, resume, docking station, and projector support, and a complete update of all desktop applications.
• The desktop includes many graphics and multimedia improvements.
• A new version of OpenOffice includes support for the ISO standard OpenDocument format (ODF 1.2), Microsoft Office import functions, and many other improvements to appearance, ease of use, and functionality.
• Printing improvements include better printing, printer discovery. and configuration services. Monitoring of ink and toner supply levels is easier, and automated discovery of Postscript printers simplifies configuration.
• SPICE is a remote-display system that provides the ability to remotely view a desktop via a low-cost, thin client.

• Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) is the default input method framework for Asian languages.
• Im-chooser allows easy enabling and configuring of system input methods.
• Indic Onscreen Keyboard (IOK) enables input using Inscript keymap layouts and other 1:1 key mappings.
• Font support is improved, with updates for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indic, and Thai language fonts.

• XACE prevents unauthorized communications between multiple windows on the same desktop.