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Julex was a Knoppix-based live CD distribution. Its aim was to be light-weight so that it works on older computers and was a small file to download.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2017-01-05 |
NEW • Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Beta |
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Red Hat has announced the availability of a development release for the company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 product series. The new development version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Beta, provides mostly bug fixes and updated software for cloud deployments. The release announcement lists some of the new improvements to Red Hat's main product line: "While prioritizing ongoing stability and security features for critical platform deployments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 beta also supports the next generation of cloud-native applications through an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base image. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 beta base image enables customers to migrate their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 workloads into container-based applications - suitable for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform." Further information can be found in the company's release announcement and in the detailed release notes. Technical details for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Beta can be found in the technical notes. |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server editions for x86, x86_64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z architectures, and desktop editions for x86 and x86_64 processors. All of Red Hat's official support and training and the Red Hat Certification Program centres around the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat uses strict trademark rules to restrict free re-distribution of its officially supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but still freely provides its source code. Third-party derivatives can be built and redistributed by stripping away non-free components.
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| 2019-08-06 |
Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 |
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Red Hat has announced a new update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. The new release, 7.7, is expected to be the final feature update to Red Hat's 7.x series as the platform is now shifting into its maintenance phase. "Beyond new capabilities, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 also marks the transition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Maintenance Phase I within the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10-year lifecycle. Maintenance Phase I emphasizes maintaining infrastructure stability for production environments and enhancing the reliability of the operating system. Future minor releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will now focus solely on retaining and improving this stability rather than net-new features. Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers are able to migrate across platform versions as support and feature needs dictate. To help with the process, Red Hat offers tools, including in-place upgrades, which helps to streamline and simplify migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8." Further details can be found in the press release and in the release notes. The new media can be downloaded from the company's customer portal. |
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| 2019-07-24 |
Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Beta |
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Two months after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0, Red Hat is publishing a beta for the upcoming release of version 8.1. The new beta offers improvements to firewall configuration, new SELinux profiles, and more options for Image Builder. "Work on RHEL 8 has continued and we are pleased to announce the beta availability of RHEL 8.1. This update delivers several new enhancements to the world's leading enterprise Linux platform. RHEL 8.1 Beta improves manageability, adds new security enhancements and enables greater developer productivity. This release also includes updated drivers that deliver new features and bug fixes for supported hardware platforms. Improved manageability: The Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console now supports finer granularity when configuring firewall rules and system services, including: Better configuration for firewall zones; log filtering based on services; service filtering based on metadata like service name and state." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. The new beta can be downloaded through the company's Customer Portal. |
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| 2019-06-05 |
Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Beta |
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Red Hat has published a development snapshot of the company's updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x series. The new beta, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 Beta, includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, along with fixes for the MDS/ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. "RHEL 7.7 Beta includes a host of enhancements and bug fixes to help deliver a powerful, flexible platform for hybrid cloud computing. Key updates include support for the latest generation of enterprise hardware as well as remediation for the recently-disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)/ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. The beta release also includes performance enhancements for the network stack, along with the ability to offload virtual switching operations to network interface card (NIC) hardware. The value of these features also improve the operation of Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift deployments, both built on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, that use virtual switching and network function virtualization (NFV)." Further details can be found in the company's release announcement and in the release notes. Downloads are available through Red Hat's Customer Portal. |
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| 2019-05-07 |
Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 |
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Red Hat has announced the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0, a brand-new release which ships with GNOME 3.28 running on Wayland as the default desktop environment. The new version also includes the Image Builder utility for creating custom images of the distribution for deployment. "Based on Fedora 28 and the upstream kernel 4.18, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 provides users with a stable, secure, consistent foundation across hybrid cloud deployments with the tools needed to support traditional and emerging workloads. Highlights of the release include: Distribution Content is available through the BaseOS and Application Stream (AppStream) repositories. The AppStream repository supports a new extension of the traditional RPM format - modules. This allows for multiple major versions of a component to be available for install. The YUM package manager is now based on the DNF technology and it provides support for modular content, increased performance and a well-designed stable API for integration with tooling." Further details can be found in the company's release notes. A 30-day evaluation edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 is available for download (pkglist) from Red Hat's customer portal. |
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| 2018-11-15 |
Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Beta |
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Red Hat has announced the availability of a beta release for the distribution's upcoming major release - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. The beta release focuses on security, Application Streams and Linux container technologies: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 beta introduces the concept of Application Streams to deliver userspace packages more simply and with greater flexibility. Userspace components can now update more quickly than core operating system packages and without having to wait for the next major version of the operating system. Multiple versions of the same package, for example, an interpreted language or a database, can also be made available for installation via an application stream. This helps to deliver greater agility and user-customized versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux without impacting the underlying stability of the platform or specific deployments." Further information can be found in the company's release announcement and in the release notes. This beta release of RHEL 8.0 is available for public download and testing without registration: rhel-8.0-beta-1-x86_64-dvd.iso (6,642MB, pkglist). ISO images for IBM Power Systems Little Endian, IBM z Systems and ARM 64-bit are also provided. |
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| 2018-10-31 |
Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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Red Hat, a Linux company freshly acquired by IBM, has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.6. This is the latest update of the Linux distribution product targeted for deployments on bare-metal, virtual, containerised, private and public clouds. As usual, the new version comes with several security enhancements, including a brand-new "Trusted Platform Module": "IT security remains a constant, key challenge for many IT departments, and one that does not get easier in complex hybrid and multicloud environments. To better answer these IT security needs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 introduces Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 hardware modules as part of Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE). This provides two layers of security for hybrid cloud operations to help keep information on disks physically more secure: The network-based mechanism (NBDE) provides security across networked environments, while TPM works on-premise to add an additional layer, tying disks to specific physical systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 also makes it easier to manage firewalls with enhancements to nftables, simplifying the configuration of counterintrusion measures and giving operations teams more visibility into these mechanisms." See the company's press release and the detailed release notes for more information. A 30-day evaluation edition of RHEL 7.6 for servers and workstation can be downloaded from the company's website. |
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| 2018-08-22 |
Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Beta |
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Red Hat has announced a new beta release of the company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x series. The new development release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Beta, includes improvements to security, management tools and Linux containers. The company's announcement states: "By using Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 hardware modules, the NBDE capability has been extended to provide two layers of security features for hybrid cloud operations: The network-based mechanism is applicable in the cloud, while the use of TPM on-premises helps to keep information on disks physically more secure. For better integration with counter-intrusion measures, firewall operations through Red Hat Enterprise Linux have been improved with enhancements to nftables. The nft command line tool can now also provide better control of packet filtering, providing greater overall visibility and simplified configuration for systems security. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 beta provides new default cryptographic algorithms for RSA and ECC, which help maintain FIPS compliance and stay current with cryptography requirements from NIST and other standards bodies, as well as organizations responsible for handling sensitive information." More information can be found in the company's release notes. Downloads are available through Red Hat's Customer Portal. |
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| 2018-06-20 |
Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 |
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Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.10, the latest version of the distribution's legacy branch with security support until November 2020: "We are pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10, the latest update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. For nearly eight years, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has carried our customers’ critical infrastructure because of the stability, reliability, and platform security that it can offer to the modern enterprise. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 marks the transition from the Maintenance Support 1 lifecycle phase to the Maintenance Support 2 phase. In order to help provide customers with a stable environment for the remainder of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 lifecycle, only critical security fixes and business-impacting urgent issues have been addressed. Examples include the addition of retpoline-based mitigations for the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities, an updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), and rebased gcc-libraries packages." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Existing RHEL 6.x customers can update to this version free of charge, but potential new customers should probably consider testing the product's 7.x branch instead. |
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| 2018-04-26 |
Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta |
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Red Hat has announced the availability of a development release for the company's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x product series. The new development version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta, includes tools for migrating existing services into containers for migration to newer Red Hat platforms. The release announcement gives an overview of the new improvements to Red Hat's main product line: "With a focus on stability and security features that maintain hardware, application, and management tooling compatibility, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta is designed to support the next generation of cloud-native applications through an updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base image. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta base image enables customers to migrate their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 workloads into container-based applications - suitable for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. In addition, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription gives our customers the freedom to choose which supported major release to deploy; therefore, existing customers may also elect to update their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 at any time, free of charge." Further information can be found in the company's release notes. Technical details for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10 Beta can be found in the technical notes. |
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