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Archive for January, 2009

RHEL 5.3 is out

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Linux | 17 Comments »

Well, as most of you may already know, Red Hat has released RHEL version 5 update 3 today, and they appear to have been quite hard at work. So what can you all expect in CentOS 5.3? Here's a brief ...

Supportable Linux Security

Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

Computer security is once again becoming a hot topic for administrators.  There are dozens of new sites springing up around the web, and each is slinging their own 'Perfect' setup instructions.  They have the usual bell curve of good advice, ...

Evils of Source

Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in Linux | 14 Comments »

It's a near daily occurrence that I see an administrator building something from source because either they fail to understand how backporting works, or they want to install software which isn't packaged in the default repositories. Source installs used to ...