January 1, 2008 9:32 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
CentOS,
Linux basics,
Rick Vanover,
TechTarget Blogs,
VirtualizationMany IT shops have strict policies prohibiting the storage of multimedia content on shared systems. Issues over copyrighted content and inappropriate material pose many problems. However, more business products offer various content in audio or video media. These can be training videos, quality...
December 18, 2007 2:44 PM
Posted by: ITKE
Andrew Kutz,
disaster recovery,
Linux Done Right,
UNIXLog files may be the most important piece of forensic information we have when determining why a server or application crashes. However, warnings of such a distaster are available to IT administrators. They just have to know where to look (hint: what do you think log files are...
December 18, 2007 11:11 AM
Posted by: ITKE
Linux kernel,
Ubuntu Linux,
Updates and upgradesThe first alpha release from the growingly popular Ubuntu Linux is now available. The build is clearly marked as a not ready for prime time player, but offers a sneak peak at the next release, 8.04, expected in April 2008. You can also publicly contribute to the
December 17, 2007 3:55 PM
Posted by: ITKE
Linux humorOne of our editors at SearchDataCenter.com created a Google map of international data centers to go with a story, but he was kind of "cold" to Linux:
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December 17, 2007 11:25 AM
Posted by: ITKE
CentOS,
UncategorizedCentOS released version 5.1 of its increasingly popular distribution, which is celebrating its fourth birthday this month. Version 5.1 includes 70 new packages native to the distribution including 17 in the series of the Yellow dog Updater,...
December 12, 2007 9:51 PM
Posted by: ITKE
Andrew Kutz,
Linux blogs and news,
Linux desktops,
Red Hat,
SUSE/Novell,
Ubuntu LinuxWhat are Red Hat, Novell and Canonical going to have to do in 2008 to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market?
Let's take a moment and assess the situation. Red Hat is the dominant force in Linux right now. They own the enterprise market. SUSE is also supported by many IHVs as a...
December 10, 2007 12:32 AM
Posted by: ITKE
Andrew Kutz,
Security,
Ubuntu LinuxThe Ubuntu repositories are lagging when it comes to keeping up with Openswan development. Currently, the latest package in the Feisty pool is 2.4.6 and 2.4.11 was just released (with several bug fixes -- one that allows newer OS X clients to...
December 10, 2007 12:31 AM
Posted by: ITKE
Andrew Kutz,
Linux kernel,
Ubuntu LinuxSo I am on a VPN kick lately; I wonder if it shows? I spent the last week setting up and tweaking Openswan on an Ubuntu box in order to allow me to connect to my home network with my MacBook Pro. I finally got it working -- you can see some of the fun gotchas you might run into when using Leopard...
