On March 31th, 2020 Red Hat announced RHEL 7.8 the next regular update to their flag ship operating system. This the successor of RHEL 7.7. With this release in August RHEL 7 transitions to Maintenance Support 2 phase. So … Read the rest
On November 6th, 2019 Red Hat announced RHEL 8.1 the first service pack for their new enterprise version.
The kernel level for 8.1 is kernel-4.18.0-147.el8. This is a bug fix and feature release. On System Z RHEL 8.1 is better … Read the rest
On August 6th, 2019 Red Hat announced RHEL 7.7 the next regular update to their flag ship operating system. This the successor of RHEL 7.6.
The kernel level for 7.7 is kernel-3.10.0-1062.el7. Please note that the kernel-alt and the … Read the rest
On October 30th, 2018 Red Hat announced RHEL 7.6 the next regular update to their flag ship operating system. This the successor for RHEL 7.5.
The kernel level for 7.6 is kernel-3.10.0-957.el7. Furthermore the kernel-alt introduced with RHEL 7.5, … Read the rest
On April 10th, 2018 Red Hat announced the next regular update to their flag ship operating system.
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kernel level for 7.5 is kernel-3.10.0-862.el7. The kernel level for 7.5-alt is kernel-4.14.0-49.el7a.
And this is actually the largest change. There is … Read the rest
On August 1st, 2017 Red Hat announced the next regular update to their flag ship operating system.
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kernel level for 7.4 is kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.
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… Read the restToday July 17th 2017 IBM announced the new mainframe called IBM z14. Planned availability date is September 13, 2017.
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From a Linux perspective the IBM tested platforms has been updated to include z14. The following minimum … Read the rest
Oracle Databasse 12c Release 1 and Release 2 are now certified on the latest Linux versions for Linux on z Systems and LinuxONE. Details can be found here:
On March 21, 2017 Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.9. This marks the transition into what in Red Hat’s product life cyle is called production phase 3 (starting May 10th 2017). This means that only critical security … Read the rest
Red Hat announced the end of service for RHEL 5. They will offer another three and a half years of security patches and critical fixes if a customer has bought the Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS).
This enterprise distribution … Read the rest