No, hardware must meet certain requirements to support full virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. For x86_64-based systems, the processor must support Intel VT-x or AMD-V technology. For Itanium2-based systems, the system must use a Montecito (or newer) processor.
In addition to CPU support, the system BIOS must also support full virtualization. Please contact the system vendor to determine if the BIOS supports full virtualization.
(Note that if this Knowledgebase article was linked from a system listing on the Red Hat Hardware Catalog, the system in question does not support full virtualization.) » Read more
Today’s OOXML vote isn’t complete yet, but while you’re waiting for the news, here’s what we’ve been looking at on the web this week:
We got the chance to talk to a lot of developers at JBoss World, including Mark Proctor. In case you don’t know the name, he’s the leader of the Drools project, also known as JBoss Rules to the enterprise folks.
In this segment, we asked what it’s like to be a developer for a project that’s part of the Service Oriented Architecture: how it’s integrated with that philosophy, uses in the real world, and what the future of Drools/ JBoss Rules is.
In 60 countries around the world, 200 teams have organized activities for today, the first Document Freedom Day. It’s a day of grassroots effort (based on the model of Software Freedom Day) to promote and build awareness for the relevance of free document formats and open standards. » Read more
Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5
Contributing author: Jonathan Robie
You may have read our background article about ODF and OOXML and why Red Hat believes OOXML should not be approved as an ISO standard. This time, we focus on how the standardization process has been compromised at ISO.
ISO’s JTC-1 directives were designed to provide a fair, consensus-based way to design standards that are portable, interoperable, and adaptable to all languages and cultures. The OOXML proposal has suffered from two basic problems: (1) voting irregularities, and (2) the use of a fast-track process for a complex, new, large specification that has not received adequate industry review. The resulting specification was driven almost exclusively by one vendor, has not achieved industry consensus, and has had thousands of issues logged against it, largely due to issues involving implementability, portability, and interoperability. Although resolutions have been proposed for many of the issues that have been raised, there is virtually no time to review these resolutions to determine whether they fix the problems. And the voting irregularities have raised serious issues with the fairness of the process. » Read more
As we’re off for a much-deserved long weekend here in the US, we’re bringing you the Friday round-up… a day early. Not much going on this week, but a couple of things we thought we’d leave you with:
Ever see something you think we should include in our weekly round-up? Let us know. We’re always looking for the most interesting bits.
Miss out on JBoss World in Orlando? Or are you still wondering how JBoss and middleware fit into the bigger picture? These and more curiousities are answered in our summary video. And if you’re wondering what the new CEO’s like, you can catch him here as well.
