A peak into RHEL 5.4
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Linux | 3 Comments »Red Hat appears to be taking virtualization quite seriously, and they appear to be choosing KVM as their virtualization method of choice. There's a rather interesting article over at Practical Tech discussing the upcoming virtualization additions to the RHEL 5 ...
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 ...