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Moving /home Data From Old System To a New Linux System
Recently a friend of mine, brought a new Laptop. He installed Red Hat Enterrpise Linux workstation 4.0. However, after installation he realized that he lost all his Mozilla thunderbird emails and...
View ArticleGoogle internal and Linux
As many of you may already know, Google uses a version of Red Hat to power their servers, running on old kernels. Check out Toby DiPasquale's Google internal talk (slides). To be frank I am only aware...
View ArticleList of open source cluster management systems
M. Shuaib Khan has published a list of open-source cluster management systems. Personally, I had used openMosix and Red Hat Cluster software (which is also based upon open source software funded by Red...
View ArticleForce iptables to log messages to a different log file
According to man page: Iptables is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules in the Linux kernel. Several different tables may be defined. Each table contains a number...
View ArticleLinux success story – Using Linux at Work
Yet another Linux success story, from the article: I am by no stretch of the imagination a Linux expert, but my overall experience has been excellent and I shall continue to use Fedora for my day to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patent Claims Pose No Immediate Risk for Linux Users
Recently I wrote post about Microsoft FUD and risk for Linux user, especially Redhat Linux users. I received couple of emails. One of them pointed out me Gartner research report entitled "Microsoft...
View ArticleRed Hat Asks Court To Limit Patents On Software
Red hat's Open Source Assurance program is already used to safeguard customers developing and deploying open source solutions. Red hat now asking court to limit patents on software: Open source...
View ArticleRed Hat Skips Linux Desktop – As It Is Not A Money Maker
Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional Linux desktop software for the end user market, but will continue to place its bets on a desktop for commercial markets as it is not making money from them....
View ArticleNow Novell Says Linux Consumer Desktop Too Tough
There are a lot of flavors of Linux on the market, each with its own unique features and quirks. Businesses are usually willing to pony up for one of the "Big Two": Red Hat or Novell/Suse. Regular...
View ArticleUbuntu 'reaping Linux dividend'
The public perception of open source is changing fast, says Ubuntu Linux leader Mark Shuttleworth.
View ArticleRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Released
Update brings broad refresh of hardware support and improved quality, combined with new features and enhancements in areas such as virtualization, desktop, networking, storage & clustering and...
View ArticleProject Spacewalk: Red Hat Open Sourced RHN Software
Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.
View ArticleSecurity Update for Red Hat Linux Kernel
Red Hat has issued a security update for its kernel package. The patch plugs a critical flaw that Red Hat said attackers could use to take control of a vulnerable system.
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RedHat Bought Qumranet's Virtualization including its KVM (Kernel Virtual...
Red Hat paid approximately $107 million in cash for Qumranet, a privately held company. Now, Red Hat positioned to deliver comprehensive, reliable and open virtualization to Linux and Windows servers...
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Red Hat / CentOS Linux 5.x: Perl Performance Bug Fix Available
Perl version supplied with RHEL has bug, which will result code running at least 100 times slower than expected speed. Now, Red Hat updated perl packages that fix a performance issue. Earlier only...
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Critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Update
Red Hat issued an update version of Linux operating system core called kernel that plugs various security holes for RHEL 5.x. This update has been rated as having important security impact. All users...
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How To Get Financing (VC Funding) For Open Source / Linux Project
MySQL, Red Hat and many other open source projects made good amount of money by supporting and creating world class software. But, how do you get venture capital - financing to grow businesses based...
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mount forcedirectio: Disable Linux CIFS / NFS Client Caching
If your network is heavily loaded you may see some problem with Common Internet File System (CIFS) and NFS under Linux. By default Linux CIFS mount command will try to cache files open by the client....
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Linux Proves – The Best Things In Life Are Free
They say - there's no such thing as a free lunch. But, Linux and FOSS software can be used to start, run and grow your business for, you guessed it, free. February survey of IT managers by IDC...
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The Story Behind The Largest Distributor Of The Linux Operating System
Interesting read and I wasn't aware of some of the facts behind the open-source entrepreneur Bob Young. From the BBC article:Bob Young is a self-confessed contrarian with a strong desire to change the...
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