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Novell has put up the SLES10 RC3 pre-release. The big changes with this new release listed by Novell are: * integration with Xen * AppArmor * integrated system management * fully integrated, high-availability storage (Linux MPIO, OCFS2) I especially like the ease-of-use of the Xen domainU installation in YaST. Even though it did not work yet when I last tried it with OpenSUSE 10.2 Alpha, but this seems to have been fixed by now. Another shortfall of the Xen installation is that only loopback filesystems could be used to install to. I usually keep my Xen hosts in LVM. Hopefully, LVM wi

Novell provides [http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/downloads.php/xenpreview/ Xen technical preview packages] on their project forge. There's packages for both [http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?xenpreview SLES10] and SUSE Linux Professional 10 and 10.1.

PHP sessions are not enabled in an out-of-the-box PHP4 installation on SLES9. Scripts trying to make use of PHP sessions yield an error like this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: session_name() in ... SUSE builds PHP4 modularized with ''--enable-session'' to enable session tracking as a dynamic module on SLES9. You need to install '''php4-session''' and restart Apache.

Novell have released a Kernel upgrade for SLES9 (2.6.5-7.257) that - among lots of fixes - comes with a new version of OCFS2 (OCFS2-1.2.1), released on April 24. There are no new features as compared to the version shipped with the SLES9 SP3 Kernel (2.6.5-7.244).

While the NIC mode parameters duplex, speed and autoneg can be set at driver load-time in /etc/modprobe.conf.local on SLES systems, this has not always worked as expected for us. This is why we have decided to set NIC mode parameters in a small post-up script which is called from the interface configuration script ifcfg-eth-id-<MAC-address>.