Red Hat Enterprise Linux now supported for 10 years

In: Red Hat

23 Aug 2010

Red Hat has  announced that it now offers RHEL Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) on top of normal subscriptions for specific versions and variants. Meaning that for RHEL3 only i686 AS/ES and for RHEL4 i686 and x86_64 AS/ES and ia64 AS are taken into consideration and are thus more expensive than regular support. No pricing information is available yet.

As a result of this the timeline of RHEL releases looks like this:

Click the picture to see it in all its glory

Honestly, the announcement comes too late for a lot of companies that already have planned and executed (sometimes painful) RHEL3 migrations. Extended support could in some of these cases be a more cost-effective solution. On the other hand, with this late announcement Red Hat might have anticipated lowering the number of applicants at the start of the offering. And a sufficient high price tag will influence decision makers even more…

An offering like this also risks that application vendors might hold on to (too) old RHEL releases rather than spending time testing and fixing their software (often agents) on the latest RHEL release. Which is one of the most important reasons why companies delay implementing newer RHEL releases today. Which makes Open Source alternatives more attractive (as they do not suffer from that). Companies that suffer from this delayed availability of proprietary software should complain loudly to vendors and threaten to move (or simply move) to alternatives.

All in all, this new support option clearly strengthens Red Hat’s position in the wider Enterprise OS market and makes their virtualization product (RHEV) offering even more attractive compared to the competition.

Original Post: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/is-10-years-of-rhel-support-still-sufficient

Gmail Videochat Comes To Linux!

In: The IT Crowd

20 Aug 2010

If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (the top video chat request), then I have good news for you: it’s now available! Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started if you are a Ubuntu/Debian user. If like me you use RPM based distributions, well no luck..coming soon..

Fedora 13 has landed in Mauritius

In: Fedora|Red Hat

16 Aug 2010

Fedora Media For Mauritius

Fedora 13 Media

The Fedora Project continues to show its love for Africa, today for the first time since I have been involved with the community a pack of shiny Fedora media has been shipped to me. I wish to once again extend my sincere thanks to Sascha Spreitzer for the support and weight he has put behind the Fedora Initiative for Africa. Things may be slow and will continue to be slow in Africa for some time but Rome was not built in a day! I now have the following media that will be distributed in due course:

Fedora 32 bit Installation Media

Fedora 64 bit Installation Media

Fedora KDE Live Media

Fedora Gnome Live Media

Lxde Live Media

For those who are not familiar with the project, there are multiple desktops available for use with Fedora. Each has a slightly different look and feel and offers varying levels of customization. Desktops affect how windows, icons, menus, and various basic desktop interfaces look and feel. You may want to try a few different ones and figure out which one is best for you!

Fedora Default

32-bit PC Edition GNOME-based Fedora Desktop.

Fedora 13 KDE Spin

32-bit PC Edition KDE-based Fedora desktop.

Fedora 13 LXDE Spin

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Fedora 13 XFCE Spin

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Fedora 13 DVD Architecture

32-bit PC Edition

The DVD edition of Fedora is not Live Media, but it is bootable. When you boot from this media, you will be running the installation program. The DVD requires less memory (RAM) on your computer and contains more software. This media may be useful if the machine on which you install Fedora is not connected to the Internet.

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Intel & AMD / PC compatible

64-bit

Intel & AMD / PC compatible

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