In the past 24 hours, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) beta became available to the public through Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service. While RHEL has been available in limited beta for a few weeks, this public beta announcement comes right before Novell’s launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, its latest enterprise OS offering.

Red Hat executives made the announcement of their partnership with Amazon a few weeks ago. Now users of Amazon’s Web service can participate in the testing of Red Hat’s latest enterprise-level Linux offering with AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) within the Amazon EC2 environment.

But the bigger announcement came from the Watch City of Waltham, Mass., with the launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10.

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