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.NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Don Schenck

The .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux cheat sheet covers how to install .NET on RHEL, get a simple program running, and run a program in a Linux container.

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Getting started with rust-toolset

Josh Stone

One of the new software collections we’ve introduced this fall is for Rust , the programming language that aims for memory and thread safety without compromising performance. Dangling pointers and data races are caught at compile time, while still optimizing to fast native code without a language runtime! In rust-toolset-7, we’re including everything you need to start programming in Rust on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, in the familiar format of software collections. In this release, we’re shipping Rust 1.20...

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Getting started with go-toolset

Jakub Čajka

One of the new software collections we’ve introduced this fall is for Go , the programming language that aims to make it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go is a compiled, statically typed language in the C/C++ tradition with garbage collection, concurrent programming support, and memory safety features. In go-toolset-7, we’re including everything you need to start programming in Go on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, in the familiar format of software collections. In this release, we’re...

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How to set up a LAMP stack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

David Kittell

You have been asked to create a LAMP stack, whether you're thinking "Lamp stack, as in lights and bulbs" or "Ok let’s build a web server" this guide will help get you working quickly. First for those that do not know a LAMP stack, also known simply as LAMP, is an acronym for a Linux/UNIX server with Apache as the server engine, MySQL/MariaDB as the database engine and PHP as the primary server-side script language. These steps are based on...

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LTTng Packages now Available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Jérémie Galarneau

EfficiOS is pleased to announce it is now providing LTTng packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, available today as part of its Enterprise Packages portal. EfficiOS specialises in the research and development of open source performance analysis tools. As part of its activities, EfficiOS develops the Linux Tracing Toolkit: next generation for which it provides enterprise support, training and consulting services. What is tracing? Tracing is a technique used to understand the behaviour of a software system. In this...

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Five different ways to handle leap seconds with NTP

Miroslav Lichvar

A leap second is an adjustment that is once in a while applied to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it close to the mean solar time. The concept is similar to that of leap day, but instead of adding a 29th day to February to keep the calendar synchronized with Earth's orbit around the Sun, an extra second 23:59:60 is added to the last day of June or December to keep the time of the day synchronized with...

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Shaping the Performance of a Linux Distro: Inside Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Jeremy Eder

Backstory Red Hat's Performance Engineering team is responsible for the performance of many of Red Hat's products. We cover existing products such as RHEL, OpenStack Platform, OpenShift and RHEV, as well as newer products like Ceph and CloudForms. Although these days we contribute extensively to Red Hat's cloud offerings, Red Hat Enterprise Linux remains a core responsibility as the building block for our large ecosystem of customers and partners, plus much of Red Hat's growing product portfolio. Smoketest Surprise Some...

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Malloc systemtap probes: an example

Siddhesh Poyarekar

One feedback I got from my blog post on Understanding malloc behavior using Systemtap userspace probes was that I should have included an example script to explain how this works. Well, better late than never, so here's an example script. This script prints some diagnostic information during a program run and also logs some information to print out a summary at the end. I'll go through the script a few related probes at a time. global sbrk, waits, arenalist, mmap_threshold...

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How Red Hat's Inception DevOps team utilized Docker for the Release Engine

Ryan Cook

As we have discussed in the past , Team Inception has been working on a release engine to automate RPM code deployments within Red Hat IT. On July 8 we passed a significant milestone by successfully using Release Engine in our QA environment. This was an incredible achievement which included a number of feature requests, defect fixes, and collaboration between multiple teams to produce an open source application that will a ddress growing needs internally in Red Hat IT...

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Partner Early Access Program for RHEL 7 Beta

Langdon White

As you probably saw, we announced the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta on the 11th of December. Would you like to get more involved in the Beta? Well, we have spun up a special program (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta: Partner Early Access Program (hence we normally just call it the "PEAP" :) ) for partners who are interested and excited about working with the Beta and sharing their feedback. We will be staffing a...

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Red Hat Announces RHEL 7 Beta!

Mike Guerette

A number of you have asked the question, and now we have the answer - RHEL 7 beta is now available! See today's full announcement here , but here are some excerpts and specifics for developers. "Today marks an exciting milestone for Red Hat as we share news of the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. With today’s announcement, we are inviting Red Hat customers, partners, and members of the public to provide feedback on what we believe...