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Fedora Linux 18 released and whats new

Posted by joseph on January 18, 2013 · 0 Comment

Fedora Linux version 18 has been released today at Jan, 15. Fedora Linux is considered as the third most popular Linux distribution, behind Ubuntu and Mint for desktop usage. The new version comes with several new features such as – an installer that is rewritten and redesigned from the ground [...]

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RHEL 5.5 Released yesterday

Posted by joseph on March 31, 2010 · 0 Comment

Redhat.com release another update of RHEL5 yesterday at 2010/03/30. This minor update releases typically provide feature enhancements, bugfixes and new hardware support. From the release notes:

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Update CentOS 4 to CentOS 5 remotely

Posted by joseph on December 31, 2009 · 11 Comments

I just successfully updated my Dell PowerEdge 1850 from CentOS 4.8 to CentOS 5.4, luckily the issues I faced were not so rare. The steps I used are listed below, may it helpful for you as well! Although this post is mainly intended for CentOS it should work on RHEL systems as well. Before you start, [...]

Filed in: Applications, System Tuning

Set timezone date and time in Linux

Posted by joseph on December 13, 2009 · 0 Comment

Your computer has two timepieces; a battery-backed one that is always running (a.k.a. the hardware, BIOS, or CMOS clock), and another that is maintained by the operating system currently running, it’s called system clock. This document explains how to set your system clock, your timezone, and other [...]

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Install Dell OMSA on Redhat Enterprise Linux

Posted by joseph on November 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

Here we listed 3 ways on the installation of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on a Redhat Enterprise Linux, you can follows these steps on CentOS or SLES 10, they would work well. 1, Install from RPM packages Generally we need these RPM packages, you can search and download them from Google.com.

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Hpasmcli Usage Example on ProLiant DL380

Posted by joseph on November 16, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hpasmcli is short for HP System Health Application and Insight Management Agents, it’s a scriptable command line interface for interacting with the hpasm management daemons, which can be used to view / set / modify BIOS settings such as hyper-threading, boot sequence control, and UID LEDs. It [...]

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Prepare the RPM Building Environment

Posted by joseph on November 9, 2009 · 0 Comment

Some days ago, I posted some examples on the common usage of RPM. Now, this post describes a manual preparation of a RPM building environment. With the help of this environment, you can generate upated RPM packages and patch your RPM-based system from source code.

Filed in: Applications, Security

Life Cycle of Redhat Enterprise Linux

Posted by joseph on October 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle is designed to reduce the level of change within each major release over time increasing predictability and decreasing maintenance costs. Every major version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is maintained and supported independently during the life cycle.

Filed in: Security, System Tuning

How to change default I/O scheduler?

Posted by joseph on September 11, 2009 · 0 Comment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 with a 2.4 kernel base uses a single, robust, general purpose I/O elevator. The I/O schedulers provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, embedded in the 2.6 kernel, have advanced the I/O capabilities of Linux significantly. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, applications can [...]

Filed in: System Tuning

Redhat and AMD migrate VMs across CPUs

Posted by joseph on September 8, 2009 · 0 Comment

AMD and REDHAT have just done the so called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors, potentially commoditising server processors. Eeek!

Filed in: Hardwares, Virtualization