A few weeks ago RHEL 5.6 was released, the installation media was also updated. So it is time to get it into cobbler to deploy the latest dot release when provisioning new systems. Lets assume your profile name is rhel5-x86_64, you have an existing distro named rhel55-x86_64 and you want to replace it with rhel56-x86_64. ….Read More
Month: February 2011
A review of RHEV
In the past few weeks I had the chance to have a closer look at the current release 2.2. The reason is that I’m working on a project using RHEL6 clients as virtual Desktops. For a proof-of-concept I’ve set up a test environment in the lab. Due to the lack of time I was not ….Read More
RHEL 4.9 released
Today, Red Hat released its “service pack” or “maintenance release” of RHEL4. According to Red Hats life cycle policy” it ends the production stage two. That means: In future only bugs with a high severity will be fixed. The “normal” life cycle of RHEL4 will end in approx. one year. This means that everyone using ….Read More
CentOS6 to be released in the next few weeks
According to an interview with Karanbir Singh – a major contributor to the project – it is just a question of a few weeks until we can expect CentOS6 to be released. CentOS is extremely important for the RHEL community, it is a playground for trying out new stuff before getting into an engineering phase ….Read More