13-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.
The SLAC Community can help test RHEL7 by connecting to rhel7-beta01. Email unix-admin with any questions.
- All things RHEL 7 Beta, and an FAQ around its release
https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/535473 - Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta
https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta
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.