Spacewalk’s first steps
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Linux | 2 Comments »A few days ago RedHat announced that they had open-sourced their satellite product under the moniker of Spacewalk, and I've taken a few days to play around with it and get some first impressions of what's been put out. I ...
3ware performance in CentOS
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Linux | 9 Comments »There is an upstream bug report here, which may be of interest to folks using 3ware and aacraid raid cards with CentOS or RHEL. The basics of the bug hinge on setting MWI, which can have a pretty hefty ...
gconf voodoo
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »The gnome desktop has tons of versatility and flexibility to suit just about any desktop type needs. Unfortunately this flexibility has a hidden cost, and a few dozen hidden options. While most options are right where you'd expect them ...
The kernel collection
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Linux | 4 Comments »If you maintain a number of older RHEL or CentOS 3 and 4 machines, you've probably got a few extra kernels lying around to clutter up your /boot partition. In some instances this can cause update issues, and I ran ...
CentOS reference guide
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Linux | No Comments »SElinux is a phenomenal way to protect your systems, and very few people disagree with this. The biggest complaint I hear is that it's not user friendly. Most people seem to treat it like a binary system, and either leave ...