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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
Now with KDE 4.4.3/PolicyKit sauce …
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 […]
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 […]
