As root, I used ’strace64′ to trace system calls of ‘db2icrt’ on a new DB2 UDB v8.2 server running RHEL5 (PPC64) on IBM eServer OpenPower 720 hardware. W/o tracking by strace64, the same command failed right away when a database administrator ran ’sudo db2icrt blahInstanceOptionsHere’. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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 »
