[TriLUG] Fwd: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Pensacola

[Mike Johnson]

For those that haven't heard.

Mike
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:47:26 -0500
> From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm at redhat.com>
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> Subject: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Pensacola
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> A beta release of a new server-oriented edition of Red Hat Linux,
> Pensacola, is available for your computer-crashing pleasure.  We
> strongly recommend that this beta not be used for mission-critical
> applications, and we request that all bugs be filed in Red Hat's
> Bugzilla database at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
> Please use the "Red Hat Public Beta" product, and the "pensacola"
> version.
> 
> All victims^Wtesters should subscribe to pensacola-list at redhat.com
> by sending mail to pensacola-list-request at redhat.com with a
> subject of "subscribe", or by visiting
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pensacola-list/
> 
> 
> Pensacola introduces two new areas of functionality beyond
> Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma):
>  o  Advanced clustering technology
>  o  Linux kernel tuned specifically for server workloads
> 
> 
> Clustering:
> 
> The clustering capabilities include the existing Piranha technology
> from the Red Hat High Availability Server product, but now include
> new shared storage failover clustering.  The shared storage failover
> capabilities include STONITH ("Shoot The Other Node In The Head" --
> one node physically removes power from the other node for data fencing),
> NFS failover, CIFS (samba) failover, and hooks for custom applications
> (e.g. database)
> 
> Documentation for the clustering components is not complete, but you
> can use the older Red Hat High Availability Server documentation at
> http://ha.redhat.com/docs/high-availability/index.html
> for setting up Piranha (be aware, FOS is no longer included in Piranha;
> Piranha is used only for LVS clustering), and there is alpha-quality,
> incomplete documentation available for the new cluster management tools
> that will be updated nearly daily at
> http://people.redhat.com/jrfuller/cms/
> 
> 
> Kernel:
> 
> The kernel tuning includes some larger default values, but more
> particularly it includes:
>  o  IO scalability improvements
>  o  Large memory tuning
>  o  Multi CPU improvements (scheduler)
>  o  POSIX AIO for disk access (database helper)
>  o  Network logging and network crashdumps
>  o  Hyperthreading support (boot with acpismp=force)
> 
> 
> Availability:
> 
> You can get your copy of Pensacola at
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/pensacola/
> or at mirrors, listed at
> http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
> So far, the list of mirrors known to have synchronized includes:
> ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/pensacola/
> ftp://ftp.shuttleamerica/com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/pensacola/
> Many more should be available in a matter of hours.
> 
> Enjoy testing, and remember: file those bug reports!  Once again, that's
> "Red Hat Public Beta" product, "pensacola" version.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> michaelkjohnson
> 
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