Nikola 6 In Beta
Nikola 6 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in first beta.
Nikola 6 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in first beta.
Nikola 5 was an interim release to tide us over until RHEL 6 was available and stable. We will expedite phasing out all 64 bit Nikola 4 hosts as soon as N6 is released. The target for full replacement is 3 months after N6 release.
Once N6 is released we will no longer be installing N4 or N5. We will be actively upgrading N5 hosts to N6 as time and schedule allow.
Existing 32bit executables need to be recompiled into native 64bit format. 32bit libraries are no longer available.
MPICH2 and OpenMPI replace MPICH and LAP/LAM.
okular replaces evince as PDF viewer.
RHEL is much more strongly POSIX compliant. If you start to get errors back from system commands check to make sure your arguments are compliant. (e.g. sort(1) no longer accepts + as the field offset, it wants -k now. While + started with 0, -k starts with 1.)
Added xfce lightweight desktop environment
/usr/nikola/bin/python version is 2.7.2
/usr/nikola/bin/perl version is 5.14.1
x86_64/amd64 support only. i386/ia32 is not supported.
The Nikola release version tag is as60-amd64
All hardware must be supported by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, release 6 Server x86_64.
amd64/em64T (x86_64) system.
At least 2GB RAM. 4GB is strongly recommended.
At least 200GB hard drive for boot disk.
Note: Nikola requires a reliable network connection on an EE-department subnet to function.
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