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…
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…
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…
Everything started in 2009, when two researchers from the MIT, J.Arnold and F.Kaashoek, wrote an academic paper about “Automatic Rebootless Kernel Updates”. In this paper, they explained the state of the art in kernel hot patching and what approaches they took…
With RHEL7, RedHat decided to stop any 32-bit version of its distribution. Anticipating the market evolution, the company is now working on a 64-bit ARM architecture called AArch64. Yesterday, Jon Masters, RedHat ARM architect, gave a conference showing a demo of…
In RHEL 6, service management was sometimes slightly painful. Each time you wanted to start or enable a service, you had to perfectly remember its name. For example, when you wanted to set up a ntp client, you had to…
After the Debian technical committee’s decision to adopt Systemd as system management daemon several days ago and the choice by the Ubuntu manager, Mark Shuttleworth, to follow the same direction, it’s now clear that every Linux system administrator needs to…
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