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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...

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...

Enterprise Linux Distributions (RHEL, CentOS and variants) put a lot of emphasis on running the most stable version of packages which leads to most sites having to run outdated versions of LAMP stacks. While this is not a rant and I fully support the Red...

It was only a few hours since I wrote about the release of CentOS 4.9 and the wait for CentOS 6 and hola we have the first RHEL 6 Clone that has been released. Differences from SL5 "Sites" and "Spins" From the beginning, we always wanted people to take...

I have been a holder of RHCT/RHCE since 2007 so when the changes were announced to the Red Hat certification program I received a mail announcing that I would retroactively earn the new RHCSA certification. This morning I got a mail telling me that I am...

Why is RHCSA replacing the RHCT? First, RHCSA represents a more accurate description of the job role held by people with this credential. Most have the job title System Administrator. Second, RHCSA arises from a thorough analysis of the skills...