Today, as previously anticipated 6 days ago, RHEL 7 has been officially released. It is already possible to download a 30-day evaluation of the distribution on the Red Hat website if you’ve got a Red Hat account or the full…

During a face-to-face conversation with a Red Hat official representative, an information slipped: RHEL 7 should be released before the end of June. The still secrete date should be revealed during a webinar around the 10th of June (it should…

Starting from May 15, 2014 it is no longer required to be RHCE to take the following exams: Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management Exam (EX401), Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening Exam (EX413),…

If you’ve got a very blur idea about what features the RHEL 7 brings with it, this RHEL 7 review published by QA Ltd (86min) is for you. This review explores all the main features in detail and explains you…

With systemd, services can be socket-activated, D-Bus-activated or manually started. This means you have to be very cautious when stopping a service and take extra precaution if you don’t want it to restart! Previously with RHEL 6, to stop the…

If you are working in a RHEL6-Windows environment, Red Hat recently released an update of its Integrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Active Directory document, written by Mark Heslin. In the Red Hat Reference Architecture Series, this paper presents…

As previously announced, Red Hat just released the RHEL 7 Release Candidate. This version can be downloaded from the Red Hat ftp site. Source: Phoronix website.

Yesterday, during Red Hat annual Summit was announced the RHEL 7 Release Candidate. This is the near-final version of the OS resulting from the beta program feedback. This version will be made available to the public during the week of…

If you are serious about security, there is one place where you need to go: it’s the aqueduct project website. There, you will find all the security configuration guidances to strengthen your RHEL servers. Even better, as it takes a…

To those, like me, who don’t feel very comfortable with ACL (Access Control List), I advise them to look at this SuSE article from 2003 that almost explains everything about this subject.