6-December-2013
SCS will participate in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 High Touch Beta Program.
This will allow SLAC to have early access to RHEL7 Beta, work directly with RHEL7 engineers
and program managers, and influence the direction of RHEL7.
5-December-2013
GNU Fortran 4.8.1 is now installed on the bullet cluster and the RHEL6-64 norics.
Usage:
scl enable devtoolset-2 'gfortran ...'
or
scl enable devtoolset-2 'bash'; gfortran ...
26-November-2013
Red Hat Enterprise 5 and 6 reboots will be required to enable the latest security-patched kernel.
Details to follow...
21-November-2013
RHEL 6.5 released
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.5_Release_Notes/index.html
RHEL 7.0 Beta expected December 2013. Stay tuned for more details.
If you are interested in participating in our testing program for RHEL 7.0 Beta, please email unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu
20-November-2013
Red Hat offers two relatively new products which may be of interest to the SLAC community:
Software Collections: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/
Developer Toolset: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rh-dts2-ga/
Please send email to unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu if you are interested in using these.