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
Year: 2011
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
Epson scanners on Linux systems
I’ve got a Epson Perfection 1260 Photo scanner. Fedora like other distributions such as OpenSuse are recognizing the device since a long long time. The back end chosen for the device is plustek. Unfortunately when using the default configuration one experience very strange effects with colours. The left and the right 50% of the picture ….Read More
Spice and RHEV, a RHCE goes MCSE
I’m currently working in a project which includes some virtual Linux desktops. The desktop of choice is RHEL6. How to bring a Linux desktop via WAN to a thin client? VNC -> are you nuts? Remote X11 over SSH -> WAN = no go. NX -> another vendor involved. SPICE -> Spicy! But: Spice over ….Read More