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Upgrade to CentOS 7

Last month Red Hat released RHEL 7 and few days ago CentOS announced the GA of CentOS 7. As you may know, starting RHEL 7 Red Hat introduces support for upgrading to major releases (RHEL 6.5 -> RHEL 7) via a tool called redhat-upgrade-tool. Not sure if this is 100% supported by CentOS at this […]

Software Collections on RHEL6/CentOS6

Some months ago Red Hat introduced Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 Beta (which was later released) which is essentially a software suite that as of the first release 1.0 introduces newer versions of programming languages such as Python 2.7 and 3.3, PHP 5.4, Perl 5.6.13 and databases MariaDB / MySQL 5.5 and PostgreSQL 9.2. The […]

RHEL 6.3 to RHEL 6.4 upgrade

Unlike its derivatives (e.g. CentOS, Scientific Linux) Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires an active (i.e. paid) subscription to get access to OS updates, however Red Hat does provide evaluation copies for RHEL so it is technically possible to upgrade an existing OS installation. Note that this is only presented as a proof of concept, running […]

Google Chrome 28 on RHEL6/CentOS6

As you might know, Google Chrome is no longer supported on older enterprise Linux distributions such as RHEL6 and clones. The system requirements page only shows recent versions of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian and Fedora under the supported OS list. Luckily I found this very useful guide to install it. The author provides a shell script […]