Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was just released, but Red Hat engineers have already been working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and today a few details regarding this next major feature release were learned during the Red Hat Summit in Chicago. Details regarding RHEL 6.0 are scant, especially with Red...
Xenified kernel been installed to run under Xen 3.4.1 was 2.6.30.2 ( aka Suse). To build Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 via Bug Attachments at Please merge xen-3.4 (3.4.0-2) from debian unstable installed “prevu” and performed build to obtain debian packages.
A security researcher has released zero-day code for a flaw in the Linux kernel, saying that it bypasses security protections in the operating system. The source code for the exploit was made available last week by researcher Brad Spengler on the Dailydave mailing list. According to the researcher, the code exploits a vulnerability in Linux version 2.6.30, and 2.6.18, and affects both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The 2.6.18 kernel is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) developers have announced the release of version 6.2 of their PowerPC distribution that runs on the Sony PlayStation 3 and other computers with Cell processors, including IBM’s Cell blades. The new release upgrades the 64-bit Linux to 2.6.29 and includes components like IBM’s Cell SDK version 3.1.0.1, as well as OpenOffice 3.0 and Firefox 3.06.
The Google team yesterday announced the release of Linux and Mac OS X versions of its Chrome browser. The pre-beta developer builds of the browser can be downloaded now but the developer teams warns that the browser is not meant for general use.
On the Chromium blog the team wrote: “Please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.”
Some of the features that the team said are not yet complete are the ability to view YouTube videos, manage privacy settings, change the default search provider or print correctly.
The Linux version is available for 32-bit and 64-bit systems running Ubuntu 8.04, Debian 5 or later systems. Support for non .deb-based systems is not yet provided. Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so the system which will automatically keep Chrome up to date. The Linux version is a 12.1MB download and the Mac one an 11.3MB download.