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...
March 24, 2011 | In: CentOS
I recently setup a CentOS 5.5 server and had some trouble with X forwarding / tunneling X over SSH. During the installation I chose to do a base with KVM only (kickstart) and afterwards tried to run virt-manager over ssh (-X) but it would fail miserably....
March 22, 2011 | In: The IT Crowd
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser. Firefox puts users in control of their Web experience, providing a...
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variants) put a lot of emphasis on running the most stable version of packages which leads to most sites having to run outdated versions of LAMP stacks.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...
March 3, 2011 | In: Red Hat
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...
March 3, 2011 | In: CentOS
At last we have a new version of CentOS but if you're expecting CentOS 6 you still have to wait for a while as the next version most likely to be released is CentOS 5.6 followed closely by CentOS 6. If you need a clone of RHEL 6 to use, the closest one...
February 25, 2011 | In: Fedora
"The Fedora project has postponed the release of the first and only alpha version of Fedora 15, originally scheduled for 1 March, by a week. This was due, at least in part, to a bug in X Server that occurred in connection with keyboard layouts for such...
February 1, 2011 | In: The IT Crowd
2011? Oh yeah..just noticed that I haven't posted anything for a month. The start of the year is always hard for any system admin not withstanding the fact that the end of the year was marked by the release of Fedora 14 (my laptop ), RHEL 6 and Spacewalk...
