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FUDCon 2010 Zurich

Luc de Louw — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:13:15 +0000

This year the FUDCon (Fedora User and Developer Conference) will be held in my home town. There are quite a lot of interesting talks on the agenda and two social events in the evening. I’ll not missing it. The conference is sponsored by Red Hat and it is free of charge. See you there…

rhn satellite 5.4 release in sight

Luc de Louw — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:53:22 +0000

When analyzing recent Bugzilla-reports and mailing list posts, we can expect a RHN Satellite release quite soon. Why? The main reason for this is the lack of SHA256 support in sat530. Since RHEL6 packages having SHA256 checksums, the release of Satellite 5.4 is a prerequisite for releasing RHEL6. As always there will also be a [...]

Oracle ditches OpenSolaris

Luc de Louw — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:28:51 +0000

OpenSolaris was dropped by Oracle As many people already suspected, Oracle will ditch OpenSolaris as announced here: OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express. The first Solaris 11 Express release is expected end of this year. If is has similar usage restrictions like the Oracle 10 Express database then it will be quite [...]

Experiences with RHEL6 Beta 2.1

Luc de Louw — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:11:40 +0000

Like promised I’ll keep you updated on the RHEL6b2.1. The “official name” is not Beta2.1, it is “Beta 2 refresh”. Why not calling it Beta3? Anyway: The good news first: In contrary to the first release of Beta 2, it works fine again! The first release of Beta2 was quite crappy, it was not installable [...]

Red Hat annouces RHEL6 beta 2.1

Luc de Louw — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:55:51 +0000

Red Hat today announced the availability of a “refreshed” RHEL6 beta2. Is seems that the problems that I have reported before was hitting not only me, but a lot of users too. You can download the beta, lets call it 2.1 at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/5.90Server/x86_64/iso/RHEL6.0-20100715.2-Server-x86_64-DVD1.iso I’ll keep you posted about the news…. Have fun!

RHEL6 Beta2 – experiences so far

Luc de Louw — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:05:06 +0000

In short: It was a non-experience because the RHEL 6 Beta 2 distribution is not installable… [Update]It is not a anaconda bug, but a bug in a paravirt driver. On ESX installation runs smooth, expect a more detailed report in the next few days[/update] While downloading the ISO, I was very curious about it and [...]

Red Hat released RHEL6 Beta 2!

Luc de Louw — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:53:21 +0000

As announced on the mailing list rhelv5-announce@redhat.com, Red Hat released beta2 of it upcoming RHEL6 enterprise product. I’m actually disappointed by Red Hat, I was thinking that RHEL6 will be released GA on the summit a few days ago. It was not released. And instead of communicating a date, even a approximate date, the only [...]

What is possibly going into RHEL6 GA and what is not

Luc de Louw — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:50:28 +0000

As I wrote different times before, RHEL6 is going to have a Kernel based on upstreams 2.6.32 Kernel. Meanwhile Linus Torvalds and his fellows released 2.6.34. Since then – from a System Engineers Point of view – there have some “minor” changes which are affecting the daily work in enterprise environments. I think that Red [...]

Red Hat’s virtualization strategy has redundancy – Quo vadis?

Luc de Louw — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:54:45 +0000

A couple of days there have been some reports that Red Hat will release a commercialized version of deltacloud, an abstraction layer for different kinds of virtualization technologies and clouds such as VMware, RHEV, Amazon EC2 etc. Red Hat puts a lot of resources on virtualization, they maintain and/or sponsor multiple projects in parallel. The [...]

Fedora 13 is released!

Luc de Louw — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:16:24 +0000

I had my doubts that Fedora 13 get released. I was wrong, and that good! I did not had the time yet to upgrade my F12 systems, according to a lot twitter users it is a smooth process. Read the Release Notes. I’ll be happy to hear your feedback Have fun! Luc