RHEL 6 ? Any news ?

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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senghor

RHEL 6 is in pre-beta1 stage at the moment.
unofficial release is October 2010

jibbajabba

senghor wrote: »

RHEL 6 is in pre-beta1 stage at the moment.
unofficial release is October 2010

Cheers

UnixGeek

That's good to know. Is anyone else holding off on the RHCE track until RHEL 6?

jibbajabba

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 ...

senghor

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...

doing my studies as well

jibbajabba

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...

doing my studies as well

I don't mind working harder anyway - do you have a timeline by any chance ?

senghor

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.

jibbajabba

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.

senghor

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

darkerosxx

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...

doing my studies as well

Just curious where you're getting this information?

senghor

Office

senghor

Well, I'll explain better.

I work for a technology partner of RH and we have access to software, trainings and calendars for RH

darkerosxx

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.

NightShade03

SELinux is not THAT bad....but it can be a pain in the a$$.

senghor

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

senghor

News....
Is not entirely definitive that Virtualization might ever be present in the RHCE.
in other words....
Focus on all the rest

senghor

RHEL 6 is just passed from pre-beta1 to beta 1
kernel is 2.6.32-19.el6.

jibbajabba

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.

senghor

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.

senghor

By the way....
if you go on redhat.com...you might see some news

....like....public download

jibbajabba

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 ....

senghor

Partner support....ah!...so many things I'd like to say....too many

jibbajabba

senghor wrote: »

Partner support....ah!...so many things I'd like to say....too many

haha

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)

senghor

Gomjaba wrote: »

haha

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

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

hope it was of any help

jibbajabba

senghor wrote: »

Support Entitlement?...I like to call it subscription
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

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 ..

jibbajabba

Well RHEL6 doesn't see any vmware network cards so my testing is off for the moment anyway

astorrs

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.

jibbajabba

That was the first thing I tried with no luck. Mind you, I was rushing so might just be a typo.

jibbajabba

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"

jibbajabba

Mmm... got it working now but still cannot register it with RHN .. getting bored now lol ...