Comments on: Linux-compatible server options expand

By: RHEL 4 installer bug: HTTPS not exempted despite best efforts — Enterprise Linux Log

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:24:26 +0000

[...] Last week, fellow SEL blogger Rick Vanover discussed how RHEL 4 is still getting releases from Red Hat, despite the availability of RHEL 5. Considering that Red Hat still requires RHEL 4 for some of their own major products, such as Red Hat Proxy and Satellite servers, it makes sense that they would continue to update RHEL 4. But Red Hat still doesn’t support Oracle 10i (or 10 anything) for Satellite, making you wonder how long it will take for Red Hat to get on the ball with current releases. [...]

By: Schley Andrew Kutz

Schley Andrew Kutz — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:49:18 +0000

Red Hat even asks that you disable SEL for their OWN products such as Proxy and Satellite. Not even the folks from North Carolina like it!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:27:53 +0000

A big change with RHEL 5 is that SELinux is ON by default. You’ll want to decide what your strategy will be … to train and require your people to use SELinux or to turn it off (oh my!).

By: Schley Andrew Kutz

Schley Andrew Kutz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:13:35 +0000

Of note, I run Red Hat Network Satellite server at the University of Texas at Austin and it can only run on RHEL >= 3.5,