There have been a lot of rumors that Novell will be sold. Latest rumors are that the Linux parts of Novell (former SuSE) will be split off and sold separately. Since that got public, there are even more rumors: Which company will buy the Linux part of Novell? Red Hat: Very unlikely, since the Monopolies ….Read More
Year: 2010
FUDCon 2010 Zurich
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
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 ….Read More
Oracle ditches OpenSolaris
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 ….Read More
Experiences with RHEL6 Beta 2.1
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 ….Read More
What is possibly going into RHEL6 GA and what is not
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 ….Read More
Red Hat’s virtualization strategy has redundancy – Quo vadis?
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 ….Read More
A brief test of OTRS::ITSM Changemanagement and the insanity of ITIL compliant software
OTRS is known as best-of-breed in open source incident management systems. Since quite some time, OTRS made its product ITIL V3 compliant. Means: It also comes with a change management module. At work we use a complex and extremely user-unfriedly software. This brought me to the idea to test the OTRS change management module in ….Read More