[BlueOnyx:15817] Re: BlueOnyx 5207R/5208R released

[Dan Porter]

Michael

No objections from me.   I have made the jump to the 5208R for some and
would like to upgrade the rest.

Are there any plans to put the new GUI on Aventurin{e} ?

Dan Porter
Twin Wolf Technology Group, LLC


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The bug reports of the early adopters have petered off and more and more
> people are starting to use BlueOnyx 5207R or 5208R in productive
> environments.
>
> Hence we just released the first production ready ISO images and OS
> templates for BlueOnyx 5207R and 5208R and dropped the BETA tag from it.
>
> The ISO images can be found at the downloads page:
>
> http://www.blueonyx.it/index.php?page=downloads
>
> Updated OS templates of BlueOnyx 5207R and 5208R have also been
> published. If you're using Aventruin{e}, then you should see them when
> you use "yum search ostemplate".
>
> There is more:
> ==============
>
> After a grace period I would like to discontinue 5107R and 5108R
> entirely by publishing an update via YUM that upgrades them to 5207R and
> 5208R respectively.
>
> These upgrades via YUM work pretty well and generally there is little
> that speaks against it. It's just the GUI that gets replaced with the
> newer one. But I'll listen to contrary points of view.
>
> The date I'm oogling for this mandatory update is 1st October 2014.
>
> The reason is that right now we're maintaining/developing six different
> versions of BlueOnyx plus two versions of Aventurin{e}. Count in
> availability on CentOS and/or SL, ISOs and OS templates and we're
> somehow talking about 23 different installation medias that need to be
> provided and/or updated from time to time. As much as that is automated,
> at the end of the day each of these install mediums needs testing before
> a release.
>
> Taking 5107R and 5108R "out of play" reduces that number to four
> supported versions of BlueOnyx and 13 different forms of installation
> media. Which makes it a hell of a lot more manageable for us.
>
> Any objections to this?
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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