April 12, 2007 at around evening time
· Filed under RHEL, RHEL5, centos, centos5
Although I subscribed to CentOS announce mailing list, I check CentOS’s official site every time I sit on my desk at home. After all, RHEL 5 had been released for nearly a month by now. Each every time, I was disappointed to find the CentOS 5 beta listed on the main page. Tonight, I was pleased to find CentOS 5 was released, finally, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The CentOS-announce mailing list post was stamped Thu Apr 12 22:36:44 UTC 2007. Up to now, I still didn’t see such a post in my gmail. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 14, 2007 late at night
· Filed under RHEL, RHEL5, Redhat
I was setting up my Google RSS reader when I noticed on slashdot, a blurb on RHEL5 (Redhat Enterprise Linux) release today. I went on to Redhat’s official website. Sure enough, it is on the main page.
The updates and feature list, aka, the technical aspect of the release is much anticipated, if not predictable from the feature list for its beta, FC6 (Fedora Core Linux 6). Two main things are full integration of Xen virtualization and advanced management for SELinux. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 19, 2007 around lunchtime
· Filed under DST changes, RHEL, RPM, centos, fedora core linux, linux
The DST timezone change for North America will come effective March 11, 2007 for the first time, as passed by US Congress in 2004. Fortunately, for Linux administrators and users, the Linux utilizes centralized database to store time zone information, namely, a package named ‘tzdata’. Actually, this is not entirely true, esp. for older Linux systems such as RHL 9, RHEL2, RHEL3, or even CentOS (RHEL AS) 4.1, 4..2. More details can be found in my latest post on how to prepare older Linux systems for 2007 DST changes.
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