Red Hat Linux

Red Hat has sent out an announcement for a new beta release, called "Phoebe." Among other things, it includes a bleeding-edge glibc with the new Native POSIX Thread Library included (along with, presumably, a suitably patched kernel).

Here is a press release for new releases of Red Hat Linux for IBM's iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries enterprise server platforms.

Red Hat has announced a new policy for errata support for Red Hat Linux products and gives the end-of-life dates for currently supported products. Red Hat Linux PowerTools (6.2, 7, and 7.1), all Red Hat Linux releases for the Alpha and Sparc architectures, and Red Hat Linux 7.1 for the IA64 architecture are no longer supported. End of life dates for Red Hat Linux 6.2 through 8.0 are also specified in the announcement.

Updated packages for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.1K, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 are now available that fix a bug in the ext3 file system, discovered in the previous errata kernel. The bug has the potential to cause data loss if the file system is used in a non-default way.

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