Linux

Redhat Enterprise 5.4 Released

This is at it’s heart an update to RHEL 5. But Redhat is promoting it as “the first product to deliver commercial quality open source virtualization featuring Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology.” The kernel version is still 2.6.18, with backported patches. Redhat is promoting upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization products along with RHEL 5.4

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OpenSuSe hardware failure

I got a call from a customer asking for help with a subversion server that suddenly went off-line. The system was running SuSe 10.1, apache2 and subversion, and almost nothing else. It had been operating for 2 years in the server room, in a headless configuration. The developers that used it connected with their Windows

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