March 19, 2015

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12) released

In November last year SUSE has announced the availability of their next major distribution release SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 12). It's an interesting change in strategy that SUSE chose to release it after the competing RHEL 7 distribution. In the past SUSE has always been first to the market.

Here is a the usual list of interesting information links:
SUSE has released the first maintenance web kernel for SLES12  (kernel-default-3.12.36-38.1.s390x.rpm)
It contains quite some fixes that you really want to have on your system.

March 18, 2015

March 7, 2015

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 released

On March 5th 2015 Red Hat released the first update of their RHEL 7 operating system. 

The kernel level for 7.1 is kernel-3.10.0-229.el7. The number of technology previews for System z has been greatly reduced, successful testing allows now support for those features.

Here is my usual summary of links to more information:
As this is a brand new release there are some hick ups aka bugs to be expected. If you are hitting one, please open a bug report with Red Hat and/or IBM.

(updated 3/18/2015)