Ive quickly made an incomplete list of the RHEL and clones/forks landscape to see what the current situation is. The interesting question will be how this will change in the coming years and how it affects Red Hat/IBM and the Linux users in general.R..
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As I found out yesterday, the fragmentation of the Enterprise Linuxecosystem just started to come true. I expect this is only the beginning and Red Hat may also start to completely hold back sources of non GPLsoftware which is part of the Enterpr..
Ive discovered an issue which I dont understand. On a new test install of EL9 I saw this message in the logs:Mar 01 08:09:18pcp-pmie[2870]: Low random number entropy available 15.6%avail@beta.corp.invoca.chThis is on a 64 core AMD Opteron(tm) Proces..
I see some strange and dangerous things happening on a HPE server with HPESmart Array controller where EL9 ends up with wrong device nodes/symlinks to the attached disks/raid volumes:(I didnt touch anything here but at 08:09 some symlinks were changed)/dev/disk/by-id/:lrwxrwx..
For those still running CentOS 6 somewhere, the patch below can be added to the source RPM.Verified to fix the issue on CentOS 6.10 x86_64 with this exploit:https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165728/Polkit-pkexec-CVE-2021-4034-Proof-Of-Concept.htmlRegar..
I have to port/build quite a number of packages for upcoming RHEL9.I thought about starting to do so now on CentOS-Stream-9-20211222.0 in the hope that I dont have to redo a lot of the work again later for the released RHEL9.Does it sound like a g..
all,Im still trying to find solutions to replace some aging EL6 and EL7 systems.This time Im looking at email. Postfix and Cyrus-IMAPd are not a problem and also additional things like DKIM are fine. However, Im wondering what to use to replace g..
Is anyone here running XFCE desktop on CentOS 8? If so, how did you install it?I just tried to install it from EPEL and this is what I got:# dnf group install Xfce Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:01 ago on Thu 11 Feb 2021 10:05:47 CET. No ma..
While many of us were busy lately with upgrading CentOS 6 systems to CentOS 8, a lot of systems may still be running CentOS 6 and migrations came to a halt this week with the announcement of RedHats new direction for the CentOS project.Since secur..
I have AMD servers running CentOS 6.10 as KVM host and on it guests running CentOS 7.5.Since the latest kernel update on CentOS 6.10, kernel-2.6.32-754.2.1.el6.x86_64, I cant boot the CentOS 7.5 guests with kernel-3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 anymore.Revert..
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