[CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

Thu Nov 11 14:53:49 UTC 2010
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


On 11/11/2010 01:06 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
> Am 10.11.10 23:54, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
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>> On 11/10/2010 04:33 PM, Connie Sieh wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>> On 11/10/2010 02:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
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>>>>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:40:52PM -0600, Matt wrote:
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>>>>>> What does 6 bring with it?  Anything new in virtualization and cloud computing?
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>>>>> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/details/
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>>>> I don't see here what version of BIND is included.  Anyone know?
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>>>       bind-9.7.0-5.P2
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>>> To determine other versions the src.rpm's are located at
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>>> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/6/en/source/SRPMS/
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>> And what are the minimum system requirements?  Will we still be able to
>> install this on a 256Mb system for example?
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> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/

Great!  Now I know what to look for I can put the right search string 
into google to get this page!

Well that has the information I was looking for except....

It says there that RHEL 5's minimum memory is 512Mb.  Last week I 
installed Centos 5.5 on a test system with 256Mb with a 1Gb of cache:

# free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        254124     235864      18260          0       5952      97668
-/+ buffers/cache:     132244     121880
Swap:      1052248     151876     900372

So I hope that Centos 6 will continue to be installable on a 256Mb 
system.  It does not pay to replace the memory on these test systems.  I 
can pick up 1Gb used SFF systems for about the same price as 512Mb 
memory for these old boxes.