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Red Hat Begins Testing Core 5
Robert wrote to mention a CBR Online article which reports that Red Hat has begun testing on Fedora Core 5. From the article: "The next version of Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution is not scheduled for release until the second half of 2006 but will include stateless Linux and Xen virtualization functionality and improved management capabilities. Fedora Core 5 Release 1 includes updated support for XenSource Inc's open source server virtualization software, as well as new versions of the Gnome and KDE user interfaces, and the final version of the OpenOffice.org application suite."
They are actually behind their goals for releases. I've read elsewhere that it should be every 6 months.
"Produce robust releases approximately 2-3 times per year, using a time-based release model: A time for a feature freeze is set in advance, and an expected schedule for test releases is produced before the feature freeze date. (Important feature schedules will be taken into account when setting the schedule for Fedora Core releases.)"
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
Fedora uses yum as the backend for up2date for its updates, no accounts required.
how is that suspicious? They started in 2004 in October. 4.10 is basedon y/mm. The release schedule is 6 months. They then came out with 5.04. Doesn't this make sense?
As someone who has used FC in production, I can attest to the its stability.
Stateless Linux (from http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/)
The Stateless Linux project is an OS-wide initiative to ensure that Fedora computers can be set up as replaceable appliances, with no important local state.
For example, a system administrator can set up a network of hundreds of desktop client machines as clones of a master system, and be sure that all of them are kept synchronised whenever he or she updates the master system. We provide several technologies for doing this.
The scope of the project is the entire OS, since we are trying to improve configuration throughout all packages. However, there are some packages which are specific to Stateless Linux:
* readonly-root
* stateless-common
* stateless-client
* stateless-server
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Ubuntu has WPA support - search in Synaptic for WPA_supplicant. (You may need to enable Universe/Multiverse)
This post brought to you on a Dell D600 running Ubuntu Breezy Badger using WPA.
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I know this site is for technically literate people, but really!!
"improved management capabilities" I can cope with, but "stateless Linux and Xen virtualization functionality" and "open source server virtualization software" are worthy of the worst type of social science academic paper or local government policy document!
I'm assuming they just mean the final version of OpenOffice.org 2.0, which had been in testing for quite some time.
R.Mo
and the final version of the OpenOffice.org application suite.
Did I miss some news? Have they actually stopped development of Open Office?
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In Synaptic, click Settings / Repositories, click Add, tick the Universe box, click OK. Now search for WPA again and you should see the package. Except if you don't have a working network connection :-(
You'll also notice more packages available: my Synaptic has 17,000+ of them, heh.
They are advancing fine, every major release deserves a major number. These aren't minor releases, Core 4 was the first distribution using the new GCC 4.0 at the time, it also has default Xen support and a new yum manager that is much faster than the old one. Also Fedora Extras was establsihed with Core 4 and a bunch of other stuff. There have been similar milestones with the other Cores (such as integrating SELinux). Each core is a significant advancement over the previous core and deserves a major number change, not a minor number. I'm understating the improvements here. They aren't doing this to inflate their version number, it just so happens that enough people are helping out that they can get kick ass releases out pretty fast, not to mention Red Hat pays many engineers to work on it 5 days a week. They have however recently cut back their release schedule from every 6 months, to every 9 months to allow them to spend more time fully developing certain functionalities that can't be coded in a 6 month timeframe. Also for the curious minded, the Fedora community just finished up a fairly long community discussion about its new logo. The way that the winning logo was designed I thought was neat, you can read about it here.
Regards,
Steve
up2date is being retired in favor of the yum front-end "pup".
-Erwos
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
XenSource is the company, Xen is a modified linux kernel pair that allows multiple opperating systems to run on the same physical hardware. It is different that other virtualisation because it uses a kernel hack rather than complete emulation of the foriegn host to create this environemnt. Because of that, it has a very small overhead - typically under 4%.
They have Xen kernels in the package list for FC4, and I used them without much difficulty. I thought it was rather nice, I set the virtual machines to auto start upon bootup of the parent kernel. Another nice feature is that virtual machines can be transfered "on the fly" while still running, between different physical hardware on the same subnet.
What we need is a standard way for X windows to have a thing like 'screen' were you can save your current output and move it to any computer that can handle X windows.
You mean like xmove? Basically xmove starts up a pseudoserver which clients can connect to. At startup clients connecting to the pseudoserver display on the default XServer, but can be moved to any other display on the network.
I agree that a cleaned up easy to use xmove system would be a nice idea though.
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how exactly did redhat "fuck" small to medium businesses?
also, rhel is $349. not $500+. and for what you pay, you get miles better support SLA than microsoft.
from the redhat web pages (which you might actually bother reading sometime before making claims which are easily refuted):
basic edition:
Web support: 1 year Installation & Basic configuration
Phone support: 30 days Installation and Basic configuration
Scope of coverage: 30 days telephone / 1-year web Installation and Basic configuration
bullshit.
when your support subscription expires, you have to remove RHN, not RHEL.
nice attempt at FUD though. are you employed by microsoft?
well gee, none of the other distros "wrote" or "contributed" apache, the kernel, mysql, sendmail, ldap or gcc either.
so I guess debian, gentoo, and all the other distros are just as much "at fault" or "to blame" as redhat?
or are you saying debian and gentoo or any other distro has individually contributed more money and software to open source than redhat?
redhat has employed many opensource developers for about 10 years now. it's not hard to see how that could ring up into $millions$.
like i said, just because you're unaware of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.