RHEL 6 ? Any news ?

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I am trying to find out what happend to the expected release date of RHEL 6 and all I can find are old article stating the removal of Itanium as supported platform ...

Anyone know anything ?
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    RHEL 6 is in pre-beta1 stage at the moment.
    unofficial release is October 2010
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    senghor wrote: »
    RHEL 6 is in pre-beta1 stage at the moment.
    unofficial release is October 2010

    Cheers :)
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  • UnixGeekUnixGeek Member Posts: 151
    That's good to know. Is anyone else holding off on the RHCE track until RHEL 6?
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    UnixGeek wrote: »
    That's good to know. Is anyone else holding off on the RHCE track until RHEL 6?

    It depends really when the exam will be available. I intend to finish the RHCE this year so it really depends ....

    Anyone found any infos about that exam ?

    RHCE for Version 5 will be at least valid until RHCE 7 which are good news I suppose ...
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    The RHCE on 6 will way more difficult than what's on right now.
    for those planning to attend the exam on 5.x (5.4) at the moment. I suggest to work hard and get it done before October/September.

    For 6...stress Virtualization (KVM) and SeLinux enforcing.

    good luck and good work...icon_wink.gif

    doing my studies as well icon_study.gif
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    senghor wrote: »
    The RHCE on 6 will way more difficult than what's on right now.
    for those planning to attend the exam on 5.x (5.4) at the moment. I suggest to work hard and get it done before October/September.

    For 6...stress Virtualization (KVM) and SeLinux enforcing.

    good luck and good work...icon_wink.gif

    doing my studies as well icon_study.gif

    I don't mind working harder anyway - do you have a timeline by any chance ?
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    I don't mind working harder anyway - do you have a timeline by any chance ?

    Sorry Gomjaba, not available from my side yet.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    senghor wrote: »
    Sorry Gomjaba, not available from my side yet.

    Fair enough, cheers. I got to learn a lot anyway so I just go on with it .. Once I THINK I am ready I will re-think the whole thing and see if there are any new news etc.
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    Fair enough, cheers. I got to learn a lot anyway so I just go on with it .. Once I THINK I am ready I will re-think the whole thing and see if there are any new news etc.

    Good luck with that mate icon_thumright.gif
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  • darkerosxxdarkerosxx Banned Posts: 1,343
    senghor wrote: »
    The RHCE on 6 will way more difficult than what's on right now.
    for those planning to attend the exam on 5.x (5.4) at the moment. I suggest to work hard and get it done before October/September.

    For 6...stress Virtualization (KVM) and SeLinux enforcing.

    good luck and good work...icon_wink.gif

    doing my studies as well icon_study.gif

    Just curious where you're getting this information?
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Office :)
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Well, I'll explain better.

    I work for a technology partner of RH and we have access to software, trainings and calendars for RH
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  • darkerosxxdarkerosxx Banned Posts: 1,343
    That's cool.

    So you're seeing something that says virtualization and SELinux will begin to be a major part of the RHCE? They have separate classes for that... if that's true, that sucks. I F'ing hate SELinux.
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  • NightShade03NightShade03 Member Posts: 1,383 ■■■■■■■□□□
    SELinux is not THAT bad....but it can be a pain in the a$$.
    Modular Learning - Learn Something New

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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    At the moment is not a SeLinux isn't a major thing in the exam and Virtualization is not even present, at least it wasn't in January, But will definitely be.
    I don't really dig SEL either :D
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    News....
    Is not entirely definitive that Virtualization might ever be present in the RHCE.
    in other words....
    Focus on all the rest :D
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    RHEL 6 is just passed from pre-beta1 to beta 1
    kernel is 2.6.32-19.el6.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Cheers. One thing is really odd. We are Hosting Partner and have 100s of licenses but we dont seem to have any access to RHEL 6 Betas, only 5. Really weird.
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    Cheers. One thing is really odd. We are Hosting Partner and have 100s of licenses but we dont seem to have any access to RHEL 6 Betas, only 5. Really weird.

    Not really weird...certain partner have access to certain facilities/functionalities....a technology partner i.e, has to develop device drivers or adjust the previous drivers to new conventions and schemas that might have been introduced in a new release. Licenses have nothing to do with that.
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    By the way....
    if you go on redhat.com...you might see some news icon_cool.gif ....like....public download :D
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    senghor wrote: »
    Licenses have nothing to do with that.

    That is what the monkey from partner support told us ... I must say though - the guys from the partner hotline (EMEA) are rubbish ... To an extend where our director was so fed up with them that he wanted to scrap the whole partner idea alltogether ....
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Partner support....ah!...so many things I'd like to say....too many icon_rolleyes.gif
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    senghor wrote: »
    Partner support....ah!...so many things I'd like to say....too many icon_rolleyes.gif

    haha :D

    Do you actually need a support entitlement for the Beta in order to use yum ? I got a few spare 5.x ones but not sure if that'll work ...(still downloading the iso at 4k/s lol)
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  • senghorsenghor Member Posts: 38 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    haha :D

    Do you actually need a support entitlement for the Beta in order to use yum ? I got a few spare 5.x ones but not sure if that'll work ...(still downloading the iso at 4k/s lol)

    Support Entitlement?...I like to call it subscription :D
    I believe you mean yum with RHN...if that's the case....
    Well, I'm not sure about it.
    In order to avail of RHN, you need a valid subscription, so....sure you have one, but IMO, using these things with a beta release is not a great idea...if you bring up a Development/Testing environment and you don't set up the yum updates properly, you might F**K up all....on the other hand...to keep track of how your Dev/Test Environment behaves along the way, with the updates...well..might be a good idea.

    Said that. if you just want to use yum to ease your life with package mgmt...this guy wrote an article that might be good for you...
    Linux Tech Support: Configuring Yum in RHEL5

    I'm using something similar for for two labs...one issue-reproduction environment (quite massive) and one RHCE study lab (unofficial)...all works just fine.
    Obviously...it all depends what you need it for icon_thumright.gif

    hope it was of any help
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    senghor wrote: »
    Support Entitlement?...I like to call it subscription :D
    I believe you mean yum with RHN...if that's the case....
    Well, I'm not sure about it.
    In order to avail of RHN, you need a valid subscription, so....sure you have one, but IMO, using these things with a beta release is not a great idea...if you bring up a Development/Testing environment and you don't set up the yum updates properly, you might F**K up all....on the other hand...to keep track of how your Dev/Test Environment behaves along the way, with the updates...well..might be a good idea.

    Said that. if you just want to use yum to ease your life with package mgmt...this guy wrote an article that might be good for you...
    Linux Tech Support: Configuring Yum in RHEL5

    I'm using something similar for for two labs...one issue-reproduction environment (quite massive) and one RHCE study lab (unofficial)...all works just fine.
    Obviously...it all depends what you need it for icon_thumright.gif

    hope it was of any help

    Oh I know all that :) Plus if all fails I just convert RedHat to CentOS (wrote up a long article once how to lol) - I just need a valid RedHat reposotory to test "our stuff" :)

    Download is still going - once that is done I will make a test install and if our bag of entitlements don't work then I am not that boffed - I still have to do a lot of testing using RHEL 5.5 so I have all the time in the world :)

    Thanks anyway mate - appreciate it ..
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Well RHEL6 doesn't see any vmware network cards so my testing is off for the moment anyway :):)
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  • astorrsastorrs Member Posts: 3,139 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    Well RHEL6 doesn't see any vmware network cards so my testing is off for the moment anyway :):)
    Try forcing (in the VMX file) it to use the e1000 driver (standard Intel 1G NIC) and that should be supported.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    That was the first thing I tried with no luck. Mind you, I was rushing so might just be a typo.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    astorrs wrote: »
    Try forcing (in the VMX file) it to use the e1000 driver (standard Intel 1G NIC) and that should be supported.

    Just re-created the VM and that is actually the default anyway
    ethernet0.present = "TRUE"          
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"      
ethernet0.networkName = "Private VLAN22"
ethernet0.addressType = "vpx"           
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"              
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"          
ethernet1.networkName = "Public VLAN999"
ethernet1.addressType = "vpx"
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Mmm... got it working now but still cannot register it with RHN .. getting bored now lol ...
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