December 19, 2011 | In: CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat, The IT Crowd
I haven't written anything during the past two months and I could easily blame it on the work I've been doing but the truth is that I've been lazy. During this time there has been a few releases that I should be tracking (as a matter of fact I am on...
October 17, 2011 | In: The IT Crowd
Please sign our statement to show your support! Microsoft has announced that if computer makers wish to distribute machines with the Windows 8 compatibility logo, they will have to implement a measure called "Secure Boot." Secure Boot is designed to...
September 29, 2011 | In: Red Hat, Virtualization
It was just a matter of time for those familiar with Red Hat acquisitions and their long history of walking the open source way. The right time has now come for those who want to try RHEV and see what it is like, without engaging in a proof of concept...
I've been working on setting up Spacewalk 1.4 on CentOS 6 to have a shiny new deployment server for my company and it has been a bumpy ride to get everything working correctly. Most of the instructions from the Spacewalk wiki are reusable for CentOS 6 and...
July 8, 2011 | In: CentOS
CentOS 6 release is in progress. The internal mirrors will now be opening up for external mirrors to sync from. This may take up to a couple of hours to propagate throughout the system, so external mirrors should start seeing the 6.0 soon. Update:...
July 1, 2011 | In: The IT Crowd
I was baffled this morning when I got an email from the Open Source Software National Observatory (http://www.cenatic.es/) regarding a copyright infringement case sworn at the Supreme Court of Mauritius. The plaintiff is a company called Linux...
April 6, 2011 | In: CentOS
CentOS 5.6 release will be announced shortly. If you can help seed the 5.6 torrents use the following links: http://bit.ly/fbW4oM http://bit.ly/fwI4wJ http://bit.ly/fjcrpn http://bit.ly/h1snle If you're impatient like me :) I have spotted a...
April 5, 2011 | In: CentOS
With so many questions being asked about the CentOS 5.6 release, Karanbir Singh (CentOS Project) has answered some of our main concerns as detailed below: TimeLine: Stuff is syncing around, it could be upto another day before you see packages, tree...
