[TriLUG] new red hat beta

[Chris Hedemark]

Hmmm there is a new Red Hat beta out and no one has said a thing...

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/testers 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 technologyfrom
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

"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book." Linux
Application Development -- Ben Franklin

http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/


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