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LXCERT meeting Oct 04 2005
- status of the "compiler" certification: (Alberto/Andreas)
- gcc version issue
- status of major packages
- proposed changes for SLC4 (Jan/Jarek)
- planning (all)
- AOB
SLC4 – announced changes
- migration to the 2.6 kernel series
- general package update, including gcc-3.4.3, GNOME-2.8, KDE-3.3.1, xorg-x11-6.8.2
- Full Kerberos5-aware environment. By default, users should obtain (forwardable?) Kerberos5 credentials on login
- integration of several "physics" packages into the default distribution, including ROOT, GEANT4, CERNLIB-2005
- But: no changes from your side?
SLC4 – upstream changes:
- SELinux – please use it!
- ACPI support (but no suspend-to-disk)
- NPTL threads by default, LinuxThreads deprecated (LD_ASSUME_KERNEL etc)
- rawio deprecated (O_DIRECT instead)
- ALSA is default sound system
- no more kernel-source package (review dependencies!)
- evolution-2 (X509 certificate support)
Latest rumors:
- RHEL5 may come out “late” (4Q2006),
- >> 18months after RHEL3 (Sep 2003).
- (some sources: up to 27 months, tied to slower
- (9months) FedoraCore release cycle?)
- review “lockdown” timeline?
- review stability requirements per environment
- proposal: certify anyway, but carefully plan deployment.
- (impact on # of concurrent distributions -> Linux support)