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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on CentOS is available in version 6.4. CentOS is a community project, which provides a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatible system.

CentOS 6.4 is based on RHEL 6.4, which was released about two weeks ago . As RHEL distribution is supplied for seven years with updates. Since the developers behind CentOS need to adjust many Red Hat packages, new versions of the free offshoot appear, however, almost always with a delay. In CentOS Red must, among other associated trademarks and artwork has to be removed or replaced.

The new version of the distribution is still based on a kernel 2.6.32 , which was, however, greatly expanded. Among other things in the kernel for Microsoft Hyper-V Linux driver has been integrated. Furthermore, CentOS 6.4 now supports drivers for both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V paravirtualization. Virtualization with KVM replaced in the new version adds support for the 3.4 kernel since embodied in “virtio-scsi”. 
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Red Hat wants to strengthen JBoss and buys a provider of business process management software. There’s also the first beta of RHEV Virtualization Suite 3.1.

Polymita, a Spanish startup is now part of Red Hat Group, the distributor announced in a press release. With the specialist for Business Process Management acquires Red Hat “technology that the performance profiles of JBoss Enterprise Middleware and especially the JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and jBPM” to strengthen, said Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat . Polymitas software draw itself by extensive functionality and ease of use, which could be by the manufacturer, especially the change management that optimize workflows and thus productivity.
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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the leading provider of open source solutions, announced the business model and pricing plans to its Platform as a Service (PaaS ) OpenShiftTM to provide support to companies in the development and implementation of their applications.

Available as a free service since May 2011, the OpenShift PaaS gives developers a platform for cloud applications with a choice of language programming, frameworks and tools in the life cycle of applications to design their own applications. Last year, the platform OpenShift left its mark on PaaS industry, becoming the first PaaS supports Java EE 6 and to offer comprehensive support life cycle for Java in the cloud. The code behind the Red Hat OpenShift platform is made ​​available to the open source community through OpenShift Origin project in April 2012. The next month, Red Hat announced plans to expand the OpenShift PaaS to allow companies to use both DevOps advanced operational models and methodologies of traditional application management.
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At its annual summit , Red Hat announced the Storage Server 2.0. The basis of this product are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and GlusterFS 3/3 , and Storage Server is designed to implement the decisions of NAS-(Network-Attached Storage). Among the most notable change – the various functions to increase data availability.

The new version of «Unified File and Object Storage» (UFO) allows access to data as an object (like S3 or similar API-interfaces) or as a file (the mounted as a POSIX-compatible file system).
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Red Hat is the eighth update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 released, which brings better hardware support, minor software updates and corrections. In addition, the new version includes all previously released security updates to.

The latest update to the company’s distribution from Red Hat is on an extended kernel 2.6.18 on. Some of the new features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux was (RHEL) 5.8 in RHEL 6 introduced and integrated into the older version. Thus, the support of virtualized environments on RHEL 5 has been expanded. Virtualized guest under KVM can use immediately from now instead of 128 to 256 cores. In addition, the Spice client only supports the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 systems. The company also has improved support for virtualization in hardware timer, which according to statement from Red Hat to lead to, among other things one at a quicker start and accelerated environments. Xen environments, however, the log information and the system can donated to change the size of virtual hard disks also switched hosts.
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The Scientific Linux Red Hat derivative is available in version 6.2 now also live issues are available.
The images are created with Fedora’s livecd-tools in version 13.4 and have a different scope: The live mini-CD (477 MB) used the window manager Ice WM 1.2, the live CD (695 MB), the desktop environment, GNOME 2.28, and the Live DVD (2.2 GB) offers a choice of Ice World, and Gnome 4.3.
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As you know, Microsoft has more than two years ago launched a cloud platform Azure . Many customers have complained about the inability to run in a virtual machine operating system platform GNU / Linux. As a company, constantly thinking about their users, Microsoft first allowed the image to download Linux, then.
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The Linux distributor and provider of open source solutions of MBI Red Hat has a stable version of its virtualization Enterprise Virtualization Solution released. Version 3.0 will by advantages in performance, scalability, security, management and cost points.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for server came back in November 2009 on the market, followed in mid-2010 Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops. Since then, according to the manufacturer, the interest in virtualization portfolio is both companies as well as the partners of Red Hat has increased significantly. About 50 percent of the largest customers of Red Hat have tested Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution, or use the already-productive.
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Not even two weeks after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, both the free CentOS project as well as the commercial arm “Oracle Linux” has released updated versions of their products. With the release of CentOS nch follows nearly a week the release of version 6.1.

CentOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 . As this includes the free reproduction of an extended kernel 2.6.32. In addition, the compression of the file has been converted to LZMA initrd.img, which leads to smaller files, among other things. For the network installation can now static IPv6 addresses are used.

Furthermore, the developers have taken driver complemented by Red Hat.

The SCSI driver qla4xxx was modified so that not the firmware, but open-iscsi responsible for the iSCSI administration. In addition, some SCSI drivers have been optimized to make do with fewer locks. In the XFS file system area were, Parallel NFS and CIFS updates.

In the network area of ​​the system call came sendmmsg to send multiple packets at once, Transmit Packet Steering (XPS) and other measures to increase the added speed. It also gave greater improvements in virtualization, KVM and Xen. The former has, among other things, a higher network speeds and supports USB 2.0, supports the latter including Memory ballooning.
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With version 6.2 provides an updated version of its Oracle-based Red Hat Linux distribution building available.

As usual, the Oracle distribution facilities with two kernel is loaded, the kernel of the Unbreakable Enterprise, based on the upstream kernel 2.6.32-46 and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (kernel-2.6.32-220.el6).
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