Red Hat announced the release of Update 1 for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 OS family, including:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for x86)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for Itanium)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for AMD64)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for iSeries and pSeries)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for S/390)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 3 for zSeries)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 for x86)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3 for x86)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3 for Itanium)
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3 for AMD64)
– Red Hat Developer Suite (for x86)
– Red Hat Cluster Suite (for x86)
This update includes the following enhancements:
– Availability of updated installable CD1 ISO images via
Red Hat Network, with OS package updates and install-time support for new hardware.
– Availability of updated Extras, Developer Suite, and
Cluster Suite ISO images via Red Hat Network, with
package updates.
– Improved system performance for large database configurations.
– Performance enhancements for AMD64 NUMA systems.
– Improved platform support for IBM iSeries, pSeries,
zSeries and S/390 systems.
– Platform support for new Itanium2-based systems.
– Driver updates including IBM ServeRAID (ips), LSI Logic
RAID (megaraid), C-Media PCI audio driver (cmpci),
Intel PRO/1000 (e1000), and Intel PRO/100 (e100 driver).
– Security updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements to
numerous system packages.
Errata Advisories describing specific changes in Update 1 are available online at:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3as-errata.html (AS)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3es-errata.html (ES)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3ws-errata.html (WS)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3cluster-errata.html (Cluster Suite)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3devsuite-errata.html (Dev. Suite)
Release notes including the kernel driver changes included
in this update will be available on the Red Hat documentation site at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
This update is available immediately to all current
Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers via Red Hat Network.
Simply run ‘up2date’ to retrieve the latest packages,
or visit the following URL to download ISO images for
new installations:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/download_isos.pxt
“The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 1 kernel now supports NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) on the AMD64 architecture. While all CPUs can access all memory even without NUMA support, the NUMA support present in the updated kernel causes memory allocations to favor the CPU on which they originate as much as possible, thereby minimizing inter-CPU memory traffic. This can provide significant performance improvements in certain applications.”
BTW, the better URL to take a peek at the changes —
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rhel/
i think that most peoples now install debian
redhat enterprise it’s not good ( $$$$ ) for small
providers
Go sign up for Linux hosting somewhere and chances are that Red Hat will be one of the few distros they support, if not the only distro they support.
Look at databases and compilers. Support outside of Red Hat is minimal. It’s not zero, but it’s small.
I agree that Red Hat is dropping the ball on what they are doing with Linux, at least for the moment.
However, you still can download all the Red Hat ISO’s for free as far as I know… so Red Hat is still in the Linux spirit.
I had one of the old Red Hat distros that just ran and ran. I don’t know about these new ones, but will be experimenting this weekend with Fedora.
>However, you still can download all the Red Hat ISO’s for
>free as far as I know… so Red Hat is still in the Linux
>spirit.
For the Enterprise versions, only source RPM’s are
available, not ISO’s. But of course that has spawned
projects like Tao Linux and White Box Enterprise Linux,
which rebuild the system and strip out Red Hat’s trademarks,
making the Enterprise versions more freely available.
>I had one of the old Red Hat distros that just ran and ran.
>I don’t know about these new ones, but will be
>experimenting this weekend with Fedora.
Fedora is still a little rough around the edges, and sadly the initial release had some ridiculous bugs (fixes for which are now available thru up2date, apt, yum). But at it’s heart, it really isn’t much different from Red Hat 9 and – once setup – I’ve found it to be at least as stable and pain-free as RH9.
>Look at databases and compilers. Support outside of Red Hat
>is minimal. It’s not zero, but it’s small.
Suse is also pretty widely supported by the big ISV’s;
but you’re right. We still need a LSB (Linux Standard Base) with a binary foundation, as Bruce Perens suggested ages ago.
However, you still can download all the Red Hat ISO’s for free as far as I know… so Red Hat is still in the Linux spirit.
Wow, I have seen this lie repeated so many times here on OSNews that I think someone’s strategy must be “if I repeat a lie 1000 times, it’ll become truth”.
Fella, you can NOT download ANY RedHat ISO. But, you can get a copy for $$$$. By paying $$$$ to RedHat you get the RIGHT to use that software on 1 machine for 1 year. Yes baby, you don’t get to own the software. Oh, and in the EULA there’s this nice clause about them having the right to audit your premises.
Did I hear “Microsoft”?
Fedora is a bit nicer than RH 9. it auto detects some network services like printers and SAMBA shares.
I think it is better than RH 9…..oh it also has NTLP in the kernel…which is moot now that 2.6 is out, but still, it had it first.
Did I hear “Microsoft”?
Yes, You’re right, redhat is M$.
Its not like they contribute anything, offer free source code (which they are ONLY required to give to paying customers),
try to send every patch upstream, ONLY develop GPL software, maintain and develop half of your favorite software, give free ISO’s of thier free product, give free updates, have open support forums filled with @redhat developers, offer $20 and $50 licensing for edu’s. Nothing like that right? I can see why you have such distain for them.
If you don’t want to pay anything use debian and shut up. If you want a standard use Redhat or Suse both of which are M$ cause they both try and make money.
You’re perfectly correct. RedHat has made immense contributions to free software. They’ve employ several GNOME developers, as well as contribute significantly to glibc and gcc. Their tools are also GPL’ed.
Free Software is not about $0 software. Its about freedom — having the source. RedHat adheres 100% to that spirit.
“redhat enterprise it’s not good ( $$$$ ) for small
providers”
That’s why its called Redhat ENTERPRISE =)
Enterprise does not equal small business and is thus not intended for it. Stick with slackware or OpenBSD.
While I don’t like the Red hat Linux distribution or community distribution, Fedora, Red Hat has contributed a lot to open source and they are a dominant and important force behind Linux.
I think zealots should cut them some slack. They are friends not foes. As a free and an open source software supporter, I value and appreciate their contributions. And I wish them success in their future endeavor.
They deserve to make a profit, if not for anything, for supporting and standing up for free and open source software and standards.
@anonymous:
“We still need a LSB (Linux Standard Base) with a binary foundation, as Bruce Perens suggested ages ago.”
The irony of course being in this case that RHEL is the only 100% LSB certified distribution I know of. It almost seems funny that none of the ‘holier-than-thou’ free distributions are 100% LSB compliant yet :p
Mario is showing up his ignorance in an earlier posting – you can download Red Hat Linux ISOs:
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/…
Yes, Red Hat Linux 9 is freely downloadable and usable for free, Mario. Free update support directly from Red Hat Network (demo account that you renew every 60 days) ends on 30th April 2004, but what you then do is set up yum (I got it from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ ) and then put the appropriate repositories in your /etc/yum.conf:
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/repos/
This then gives you free backported security fixes for your Red Hat Linux release (yes, this includes 7.X and 8.0 too !). I can’t say how long the free fixes will be available for beyond the EOL dates, but I’d be surprised if it was less than a year.
Then, of course, you can try experimenting with Fedora Core (old versions of FC will be supported by the yum repositories too, so don’t panic if you think that as soon as FC2 comes out, FC1 is dead in the water) if you wish to continue the “free Red Hat Linux” route (FC is Red Hat Linux in all but name).
For the paranoid, having support for older RH and FC releases is great (the fact it’s free is even better) – it means you can stay one or two major releases behind (i.e. wait for all the nasty bugs to get eliminated before you jump to, say, one major version behind the slightly bleeding edge FC stuff). It also allows you to completely skip one or two major releases if you feel that the one you’re on is working just fine.
Having used FC1 (and the “yum update” fixes since), I can say it’s pretty stable and certainly at least as good as Red Hat Linux 9, so I think the Fedora Core line of releases are shaping up nicely (for production servers, I’d wait until just before the release of FC2 to install FC1 [remember that FC2 will have kernel 2.6, so could be a candidate to skip for production servers so that it’s more solid when FC3 is out] – you should have FC1 on test servers already to make sure it’s solid).
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RHEL is the only 100% LSB certified distribution I know of.
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Don’t heard about SuSE, don’t you?
http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/lsb_cert.ht…
Or take a look at all Linux Standard Base Certified Distributions:
http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl?CALLER=index.tp…
Debian is working on it:
Debian and the Linux Standard Base
http://people.debian.org/~taggart/lsb/
You are either a standard or not so I THINK what he ment with the 100% is that nobody else is LSB across ALL platforms that the organization has said to be be LSB. like Itanium, iSeries, S/390, pSeries and zSeries. The link you posted says they are only IA-32 runtime certified I think that leaves out about 8 archetectures. Which Redhat has all of if i’m not mistaken.
Dear Anonymous,
Do not be so hard on Mario: he definitely meant RHEL, not home desktop Red Hat 9. It is obvious from his posting.
As for Red Hat 9.0 still freely available and supported: if Microsoft to support Windows 98 same way you describe support for R-H 9.0 after April 30, then we would have very many people converting to Linux or Win ME from Win98.
Until support for Linux will be as easy, painless and straightforward as for Win XP, my Russian friends will all be running Windows they bought on the flea market in Moscow for $5 for unlimited number of installations and hassle-free updates.
Ok, the first link I posted only mentions SuSEs Personal and Professional Linux distribution but not SuSEs Enterprise Linux distribution.
But if you had checked my second link http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl?CALLER=index.tp… you would have seen:
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 being LSB Certified for:
LSB Runtime Environment for IA64 Version 1.3
LSB Runtime Environment for IA32 Version 1.2
LSB Runtime Environment for PPC32 Version 1.3
LSB Runtime Environment for S390 Version 1.3
where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 being LSB Certified for:
LSB Runtime Environment for IA64 Version 1.
LSB Runtime Environment for IA32 Version 1.3
LSB Runtime Environment for PPC32 Version 1.3
LSB Runtime Environment for S390 Version 1.3
LSB Runtime Environment for S390X Version 1.3
In direct difference to SuSE, Red Hat only covers one more architectur: S390X (zSeries).
Where do you get your “leaves out about 8 architectures. Which Redhat has all of if” from?
So in response to Shawn my posting was correct, as Red Hat Enterprise Linux is clearly not the only LSB certified distribution out there.
And if you wait for Debian/Sarge, you will probably see a Linux distribution LSB certified for all architectures Debian currently supports (with Debian/Woody they are: Alpha, ARM, HP PA-RISC, Intel x86, Intel IA-64, Motorola 680×0, MIPS, MIPS (DEC), PowerPC, IBM S/390 and SPARC).
redhat announced last month “we are the first enterprise Linux platform to be certified by the Free Standards Group across all Linux Standard Base (LSB) Runtime Environment architectures”
I’m not clued into the whole thing and how it works, but that sums up my post about what he may have ment by 100%.
I look here:
http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/docs/prodstandards.tpl?CALLER=ind…
and see 7 runtime certs and I know RHEL supports 7 arch’s. maybe I jumped to conclusions. I notice there is no zSeries, iSeries, and pSeries platforms listed, where is a full list? or are those under the s390x umbrella?
ok, found that Red Hat announcement:
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… supported architectures include x86-compatible, Itanium, IBM iSeries,
IBM S/390, and IBM zSeries platforms. In addition, Red Hat is the first
operating system provider to be LSB certified on the IBM’s zSeries, iSeries,
and pSeries and S390 platforms.
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x86-compatible => IA32
Itanium => IA64
IBM iSeries and pSeries => PPC32
IBM S/390 => S390
IBM zSeries => S390X
Ok, with certification Red Hat (certified: 10/Dec/2003) was approximately one week faster than SuSE (18/Dec/2003) AND SuSE is missing S390X certification.
But both are not certified for PPC64.
On today (17/Jan/2004) it is no matter to me whose distribution was certified first. Important is to me that my distribution I use is certified for the plattform(s) I use. So I can use software which requires LSB compliance. And in this case, both distributions does the job.
@Descartes:
The other person clarified my point, what I had meant was certification across all major platforms, I should have been clearer.
Even then though, you’ll notice that only SUSE and RedHat have any significant amount of recent certification. Additionally, I didn’t see any non-commercial distributions on that list. I know Debian’s “working towards it” or almost there. But almost is only good enough for horse shoes, grenades, and atom bombs :p
Nontheless you do bring up a point that there are a few minor unknown commercial distributions that sport LSB certification for IA32 at least.
SLackware — Slackwave: yes it always offers Slack fans a reliable enviroment to work. It is quiet but it helps you a lot.
never regret to switch from RedHat/FC to Slackware