User:Kevin/EPEL6 Announce Draft

The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project is happy to announce the release of EPEL 6 today!

EPEL 6 is a collection of add-on packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and other compatible systems, maintained by the community under the umbrella of the Fedora Project. EPEL 6 is designed to supplement RHEL 6 by providing additional functionality and does not replace any RHEL 6 packages. As a community project, EPEL is maintained and supported by volunteers via Bugzilla and mailing lists. EPEL is not commercially supported by Red Hat, Inc.

Included are over 2500 source packages that build into over 5600 binary packages. We are always seeking volunteers eager and willing to help maintain new packages. Refer to the URL below to join us!

Some highlights:

it's 90 perl packages dependencies.
 * rt3 - The Request Tracker Bug and Ticket tracking system, as well as


 * trac - Project management system, along with many plugins.


 * haproxy, varnish and lighttpd proxies and web servers.


 * BackupPC, rdiff-backup and other backup clients.


 * A large stack of Ruby packages.

solutions.
 * Spamassassin plugins, clamav and other mail server and filtering


 * rkhunter and chkrootkit security scanners.


 * collectd, munin, nagios and cacti monitoring solutions.


 * Over 600 perl packages.


 * And many more...

To use EPEL 6:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL6-FAQ#How_do_I_use_it.3F

To Join us, or for more information on the EPEL project:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL