Tag: linux
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Centos bails
Wow. What a week. I’m almost not sure to start but let’s give this a go. Red Hat’s had a pretty hard week convincing Centos users that their announcement Tues (15th Dec) deprecating Centos 8 (and Centos downstream in general), is A Good Thing(tm). How did this come about? Centos is one of the most…
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Slackware 14.1: an interview
I’ve been quite slack ( yip queue the puns ) on reviewing Slackware 14.1 but time has been short and to tell you the truth, after upgrading, there’s not a whole lot different from an existing user’s point of view ( except for that usual Slackware “it just works” air of operation ). That being…
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10 Immutable laws of security administration
Law #1: Nobody believes anything bad can happen to them, until it does Law #2: Security only works if the secure way also happens to be the easy way Law #3: If you don’t keep up with security fixes, your network won’t be yours for long Law #4: It doesn’t do much good to install…
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Slackware 14.0: An Interview
Wow, Slackware 14.0 is finally here! To say this has been a huge upgrade cycle is putting it mildly. Nearly a year and a half I think? And 5 release candidates. That’s not of course to say there’s anything wrong with that – 13.37 has been serving us just fine since April last year. A…
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Slackware -current May 2012
For anyone having some weirdness in X/KDE after updating to the latest current ~ May, there are some extras you need to do. First for the latest release of Xorg, some packages have been split and as such, you will have new packages that have probably not been installed. Go through recent entries in Changelog…
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Virtualisation part 4: oVirt
Red Hat’s virtualisation product, RHEV, was slightly hamstrung in v2 seeing as the manager technology ( which had previously been purchased from Qumranet ) only ran on Windows. This requirement is something that has put me off that product until now – RHEV 3 has been released with a JBoss-based management server now and a…
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Slackware 13.37: an interview
I woke up this morning to find a very nice email in my inbox – Slackware 13.37 has been released! So continuing on from previous articles in my interview series, it’s time to take a look at Slackware 13.37. One thing is for sure about the development process – Pat has been having some fun.…
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Breaking News: Novell Sold!!!
So Attachmate Corp has purchased Novell for $2.2B. In addition, certain IP assets will be sold off separately for $450M to a consortium of Microsoft and others. These include the copyrights for Unix System V which was used in defense of SCO’s lawsuit. So one wonders whether the purchase by Microsoft includes these or not…
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Server Reboots
A recent article offered that servers should be rebooted on a regular basis and mostly argued the case of OS updates requiring this. I think that servers should be rebooted/shutdown but only in the region of months or bi-annually. 3 reasons: a. applying of kernel patches ( unless you’re using ksplice on Linux ) b.…
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What is Linux? and software confusion …
A recent posting on the Blog of Helios prompted me to write a short and simple definition of Linux that might be useful for current non-users of this operating system. It is however a difficult definition in the context of what people already know. And the fact of the matter is that what the general…
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Adventures in Linux distro land
The number of articles lately concerning the overwhelming amount of Linux distributions available is quite interesting; why now? Perhaps because Linux on the desktop is becoming a little more mainstream. Or perhaps because of the miriad number of embedded devices that use Linux ( think home automation, signage boards, NAS storage, netbooks, phones, radios, media…
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Tweetdeck on Slackware64 13.0
I recently came across this application ( thanks Nic ) so only natural that I try it out ( especially as I have an issue with the plasma twitter widget in KDE 4.2.4 ). Couple of issues though: requires Adobe AIR only 32-bit packaged only for deb and rpm I did some searching and with…
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The Slackware 13.0 Interview
It’s been a while since my last ‘Interview’ with Slackware and we’ve just had the new 13.0 release ( 26th August ), so time to brush up on Slackware as one of the premier distributions in the Linux landscape. I wasn’t quite sure where to start with this article as all the goodness of previous…
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Cluster and distributed filesystems
This is a surprisingly large ecosystem for an area of OS’s that would on the face of it seem very specialised. I think there are a few facts that are bringing these features to the mainstream: 1. we’re looking at new IT innovations like cloud computing 2. management interfaces to provide these features are being…