Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux

Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux Gets Global File System (GFS) Support

27. June 2004

Lineox, Inc. released today Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 
version 3.023, the 23th version of Always Current Lineox Enterprise 
Linux since 23. Feb. 2004. A new version of Always Current Lineox 
Enterprise Linux is always released when Red Hat, Inc. releases bug or 
security fix packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, but occasionally 
also when new features are added to Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux.

This latest release of Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux is a 
feature enhancement release, which adds the packages built from Red Hat 
Global File System (2200 USD) sources. Always Current Lineox Enterprise 
Linux has always had packages built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
Advanced Server 3.0 (1499 USD), Red Hat Cluster Suite (499 USD), and Red 
Hat Developer Suite (free as an introductory offer) sources, so the 
total cost of comparable software is now up to 4198 USD. Always Current 
Lineox Enterprise Linux is however available for download for only 10 
Euros for one type of disk image(s) or 15 Euros for both CD and DVD images.

Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file
system and volume manager that that can be used on Lineox Enterprise 
Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all 
major server and storage platforms. The leading (and first) cluster file 
system for Linux, GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry 
adoption, broadest application support, and best price/performance of 
any Linux cluster file system today. GFS allows Lineox Enterprise Linux 
servers to simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system 
on the SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and 
overhead of managing redundant data copies. GFS has no single point of 
failure, is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Lineox 
Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications.

GFS will be supported like the Cluster and the Developer Suite with 
updates, which are all included in the update support service for Lineox 
Enterprise Linux 3.0 starting at 15 Euros per year for single systems.

Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.023 needs 4 CD images, it 
started as 3 disk set, the DVD image size is now 2.161 GB and it started 
as 1,729 GB. It contains now 376 updated or new packages totaling 1,150 
GB, so approximately half of the contents is already changed from the 
original release of Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 in just 5 months.

Further information

www.lineox.com, linux@lineox.com
Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux: www.lineox.com/aclel3.php
Support price list: www.lineox.com/buysupport.php


About Lineox

Although a young company, Lineox founders have made Finnish localized
Linux distributions ranging from the first one to predecessor of Lineox
Enterprise Linux, which reached about 70 to 90% share of Finnish Linux
retail market.


Trademarks

"Lineox" is a registered trademark of Lineox, Inc. "Red Hat" is a
registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. "Linux" is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.

-- 
Raimo Koski  http://www.lineox.com/  http://www.raimokoski.com/