CentOS announce - Dec 2015 - Announcing release for Thermostat 1.2 on CentOS Linux 6 x86_64 SCL

I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Thermostat 1.2 on 
CentOS Linux 6 x86_64, delivered via a Software Collection (SCL) built 
by the SCLo Special Interest Group 
(https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo).

QuickStart
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You can get started in three easy steps:
   $ sudo yum install centos-release-scl
   $ sudo yum install thermostat1
   $ scl enable thermostat1 bash

At this point you should be able to use thermostat just as a normal 
application. Examples of commands run might be:
   $ thermostat-setup
   $ thermostat

In order to view the individual components included in this collection, 
you can run:
   $ sudo yum list thermostat1\*

About Software Collections
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Software Collections give you the power to build, install, and use 
multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting 
system-wide installed packages. Each collection is delivered as a group 
of RPMs, with the grouping being done using the name of the collection 
as a prefix of all packages that are part of the software collection.

The collection thermostat1 delivers versions 1.2 of the Thermostat, an 
instrumentation tool for the Hotspot JVM, with support for monitoring 
multiple JVM instances on multiple hosts.

For more on the Thermostat, see 
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Thermostat.

The SCLo SIG in CentOS
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The Software Collections SIG group is an open community group 
co-ordinating the development of the SCL technology, and helping curate 
a reference set of collections. In addition to the Thermostat 
collections being released here, we also build and deliver databases, 
web servers, and language stacks including multiple versions of 
PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Apache HTTP Server, NodeJS, Ruby, Python and others.

Software Collections SIG release was announced at 
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-October/021446.html

You can learn more about Software Collections concepts at: 
http://softwarecollections.org
You can find information on the SIG at 
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo ; this includes howto 
get involved and help with the effort.

We meet every second Wednesday at 16:00 UTC in #centos-devel (ref: 
https://www.centos.org/community/calendar), for an informal open forum 
open to anyone who might have comments, concerns or wants to get started 
with SCL's in CentOS.

Enjoy!

Honza
SCLo SIG member