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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 released

May 26th, 2009 · No Comments

With the 8th update of their venerable Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 version (first released in February 2005), RedHat switches to “production 2 lifecycle phase“, where it helps customers transition to RHEL5. Ideally everyone will upgrade to rhel5 by the end of the year – Q4 2009 (in case not done already, this is a [...]

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rhel/centos x86_64 and i386 packages mess…

May 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Anyone running centos/rhel x86_64 systems has probably noticed that redhat has a strange way to install a mix of i386 and x86_64 rpms on such a systems. This is how redhat is using the 64bit architecture in a mixed way to be able to support also i386 applications. This is completely different from how for [...]

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