First of all: Where is the Red Hat Press release? Nada, nothing, nichts (yet)…. History As I wrote in my previous post, I’ll keep you posted with my latest findings. In another post, I was speculating about the upstream version. Now, Sat540 seems to be based on Spacewalk 1.2 which is not yet released. I ….Read More
Year: 2010
RHN Satellite 5.4 released
RHN Satellite 5.4 was released. It can be downloaded from http://rhn.redhat.com. Release Notes: See the release notes from Red Hat More to report soon…. Have fun!
Deploying RHEL as ESX guests – Kickstarting or using ESX templates?
Some time ago I asked my self the question if it is better to kickstart systems or working with ESX templates when deploying RHEL as ESX guests. I also had some discussions with friends working in the same industry. I tried it and came to the following conclusion: Kickstart the systems is the way to ….Read More
Spacewalk is moving further to PostgreSQL support
The upstream of RHN Satellite – Spacewalk – is moving further to database indepedancy, with the scope of PostgreSQL compatiblity. How I come to this conclusion? Read the git commit logs. At FUDCon 2010 in Zurich I was attending Miroslav’s talk. He was complaining that nobody gives the PostgreSQL-version a try. He is right, on ….Read More
Bye bye Suse, welcome Fedora
Successfully migrated my workstation @home from OpenSuse to Fedora13 After using SuSE and later OpenSuse since 1994 it was time for a change. I was stuck at OpenSuse because of its excellent multimedia support trough 3rd party repostitories from packman. Last evening another update brought the system down once again. Time for change. Since a ….Read More
Rumours about RHEL6 GA end of October 2010
The latest unofficial rumors about the release date of RHEL6 are pointing to end of October 2010. This is a bit more precise than the official statement “later this year“. There are multiple sources of this rumors, so it can be considered truthful but still not as a fact. Hopefully RHN Satellite 5.4 will be ….Read More
FUDCon and FrOSCamp Day Two
After the official party called “wired dreams” @StuZ on Friday, I was a bit late and arrived @ETH in the early afternoon. At 14:00 there was the (from my point of view) probably best workshop, it was about Puppet. Puppet is an open source data center automation and configuration management tool. For more information see ….Read More
FUDCon and FrOSCamp Day One
FUDCon 2010 was the first Fedora event I visited, so I was curious about who to meet there. I was keen to visit the talks about different topics. Most of this talks have been great and gave a good overview on the topic discussed. It was a Co-event together with FrOSCamp, so there was also ….Read More