Provides a user interface that makes it easier for first time users to remotely install Linux and Windows on servers and virtual machines.

LinMin, a provider of bare metal provisioning, today unveiled Release 5.3, featuring an user interface that makes it easier for first time users to remotely install Linux and Windows on servers, blades, workstations and virtual machines within minutes of downloading the product.

The company explains that LinMin 5.3 also includes provisioning support for recently released or soon to be released Linux distributions including 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 10 SP3, Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10, OpenSUSE 11.1 and CentOS 5.3, as well as 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003. It avers that the combination of breadth of platform support and affordability all contribute to its adoption in companies from AT&T and Kodak to small and midsized hosting companies.

''Ease of use is too often overlooked by providers of systems management solutions that cater to IT domain experts rather than to all IT users,'' said Laurent Gharda, CEO and founder of LinMin Corp. ''LinMin's approach is to simplify things as much as possible, hide the underlying complexity and let the user get a job done quickly and without errors. One-Click provisioning role creation is a representative example of this philosophy whereby users don't need to know the intricate differences between provisioning Red Hat, Novell, Windows or Ubuntu. Simply point, click and you're ready to remotely install an operating system on systems of your choice.''