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Migration From Oracle 9i On Red Hat 2.1 Advanced Server To Oracle 9i On Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide a procedure for migrating a system running Oracle 9i with 9.2.0.4 patch on Red Hat 2.1 Advanced Server to RHEL 3.0 while keeping the Oracle 9i data intact. The paper assumes that all the systems in the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
What Do You Make Of RHEL 5?
Forum Has anyone out there had the chance to put RHEL through its paces in a real working environment yet? And those of you who want virtualisation but aren't planning to use RHEL 5--why not? The ZDNet UK Reviews gang has given a pretty enthusiastic...
[April 3, 2007, 15:27]
Linux (RHEL 4) 64-Bit Performance With NFS, ISCSI, And FCP Using An Oracle Database On NetApp Storage
White Papers This technical report provides tuning recommendations that can increase the performance of Linux 2.6- based kernel environments such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4 with Oracle10g databases. A performance comparison of NFS, iSCSI, and FCP...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Red Hat Releases Delayed Enterprise Linux Beta
News Among other features, RHEL 5 Beta 1 includes virtualisation technology based on the open source Xen project, despite Red Hat executives' disparaging comments about Xen in recent weeks. Red Hat said at the beginning of the summer that it would begin...
[September 11, 2006, 16:50]
Red Hat Pushes Linux As A Service Model
News In a sprawling series of announcements on Wednesday, the Linux operating system vendor updated its virtualisation abilities in a new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat announced a new "appliance" version of RHEL for release next...
[November 8, 2007, 15:39]
Red Hat Releases Enterprise Linux 5
News With RHEL 5, the high-specification version has been renamed Advanced Platform (AP) and comes with premium levels of support for an unlimited number of virtual instances of the operating system. After some delays, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5...
[March 14, 2007, 15:00]
Fedora Linux Support Group Shuts Down
News Red Hat offers two versions of Linux, but only Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) comes with long-term support. In the days since Fedora Legacy got started, another free option for Red Hat has cropped up: CentOS, an attempt to reproduce RHEL based on...
[January 3, 2007, 7:20]
Red Hat Flagship Backs Linux Standard
News Red Hat claims the RHEL 3 is the first enterprise Linux platform to achieve certification across all LSB Runtime Environment architectures. Certified architectures for RHEL 3 include IA32, Itanium's IA64, IBM iSeries and pSeries, IBM S/390 and IBM...
[December 11, 2003, 14:40]
Red Hat Upgrades Kernel To 2.6
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHEL 4) is the first time Red Hat's commercial product has included the newer 2.6 Linux kernel. Paul Cormier, Red Hat's executive vice-president of engineering, said one major new feature with RHEL 4 is the...
[February 15, 2005, 11:15]
Red Hat Linux 5.2 Beta Released
News Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 beta upgrades the core virtualisation hypervisor, Xen, to Xen 3.1.2, and allows support for up to 64 processors per system and up to 512GB of memory per server. The RHEL beta is available in the plain form as...
[March 13, 2008, 15:18]
Latest Linux Technology Takes Slow Road To The Enterprise
News Red Hat waits 12 months to 18 months between new versions of its corporate product, so it's likely that RHEL 4 with Linux 2.6 will arrive in 2005. Red Hat's newest product for businesses, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (RHEL 3.0), released last week...
[October 30, 2003, 9:20]
Red Hat Promises Fedora Improvements
News RHEL let the company grow from a small market of technically savvy customers to the large market of mainstream customers. But the project has shown some success in maturing technology quickly so it can be incorporated into RHEL, Tiemann said.
[February 21, 2005, 8:20]
Build Your Own Linux Server
Talkback All of these project aim to track RHEL and thus should be good for updates for the next 4-5 years. For anything mission critical it is worth taking the hit and paying for RHEL itself of course, but for second tier systems I have found Tao an...
[May 4, 2004, 10:15]
Red Hat Trials Update For IBM And AMD
News The update will speed up RHEL 3 on IBM mainframes, Red Hat said. RHEL, which Red Hat sells in the form of an annual subscription for support and updates, boosted the company's profits in its most recent quarter to $4.1m (£2.33m), the company...
[December 22, 2003, 10:20]
Next Red Hat Linux Due Before March
News However, the company began giving itself scheduling wiggle room in September, when Red Hat released the first RHEL 5 beta. Making certain that RHEL 5 is thoroughly locked, loaded and debugged before sending it out the door (is) more important in...
[December 29, 2006, 8:33]
Fedora Core 6 Revamps Xen Virtualisation
News Fedora Core 6 in effect is a rough draft of RHEL 5, to be released in late 2006 or early 2007. The biggest change coming with RHEL 5 is Xen, open source virtualisation software that lets multiple operating systems run simultaneously, each in its...
[October 24, 2006, 16:40]
Red Hat Reaches Out With Fedora
News One of the mistakes we made early on when we made the split between RHEL and Fedora was we told everybody that Fedora was public, come help us out," says Greg Dekoenigsberg, Red Hat's community relations manager.
[January 17, 2005, 15:35]
Novell Woos Red Hat Developers
News Novell announced earlier this week that its openSuse Build Service development tool, which already supports Novell's openSuse variations, Ubuntu and Debian, among others, will now support software from Red Hat, Novell's main competitor and the...
[January 25, 2008, 15:45]
Red Hat Subscriptions Surge
News RHEL costs can vary widely. Red Hat also sells a version of RHEL called WS for workstations. Red Hat had to modify its RHEL strategy once, introducing a lower-priced version called RHEL ES for dual-processor Intel-based servers.
[November 19, 2003, 9:25]
Red Hat Unveils Discounts For Education
News The two products are academic versions of the company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS software, in the case of the desktop software, and RHEL AS for the server. Also as expected, Red Hat began selling a subscription plan under which schools may offer...
[December 4, 2003, 7:50]
