Other focus areas for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 testing include the following:

* Network storage (Autofs, iSCSI)
* Kexec / Kdump (replacing Diskdump and Netdump)
* Smartcard integration
* SELinux Security
* Installer improvements
* Clustering and Cluster File systems
* Analysis and Development Tools (SystemTap, Frysk)
* Stateless Linux Enablers
* Infiniband and RDMA (OpenFabrics.Org)ll
* New Driver Model for better integration of out-of-kernel-tree drivers

This beta release supports a wide range of hardware platforms including:
- 32-bit x86-compatible (i386/i686)
- 64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T (x86_64)
- 64-bit Intel Itanium2 (ia64)
- 64-bit IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries and POWER (ppc64)
- 64-bit IBM eServer zSeries (s390x)