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Ok, it’s really called “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop with Workstation Option“, but that is quite a mouthful. Anyways, after playing with just the regular RHEL5 Desktop Basic (ie. without the Workstation Option), I found that it didn’t have all that I needed (and/or wanted), so I went ahead and got the “Workstation [...]

Looks like Dreamhost rolled back their mysql servers or something.  I just noticed that my post about Yahoo! Mail going with unlimited storage had disappeared!  I also notice in my feed reader that a bunch of feeds got rolled back.  This is somewhat annoying.

From #centos:
CentOS 5 is currently scheduled for release April 9th, 2007 at 23:59GMT. Further discussion is offtopic except in #centos-social.
(go to #centos and type “pony when centos 5″ to see for yourself.)
Mark your calendars.

Well, CentOS5 should be released “anytime now”. Just caught this on the centos-devel mailing list:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> 1700hrs UTC Mar 28th 2007 - Final cut off for C5Final, anything needed
> or being worked on needs to be committed in by then.
>
> - KB
has now happened..
So, hopefully, we’ll all be downloading CentOS5 soon!  Thanks [...]

Well, Red Hat released RHEL5 on March 14, 2007. The CentOS team’s goal is to get CentOS5 out within 14 days. That means that it should be out…well…in two days. I’m eagerly awaiting this release. It looks really nice, especially since I have been using RHEL5 Desktop for a while now [...]

Confirmation from Red Hat Suupport that one cannot build kernel modules using their Desktop.
I’ve confirmed that using Desktop, one can’t create kernel module. And for kernel-devel package, you atleast require RHEL5-WS entitlements.
A bit annoying.

Dude, does Larry Ellison ever learn not to lie? First, he comes out with his Unworkable Linux and tells all sorts of lies: “Red Hat only provides bug fixes for the latest version of its software” or how about, “We think it’s important not to fragment the market.” He got caught on [...]