Google seems eager to obtain a share of the Operating system market & cut a bit of the large cake Microsoft was keeping for itself for a long time. Google are currently working on a web focused Operating System. As the web applications seems to be the future, Google new OS might strike the market. […]
Cheat sheets is a great way of learning for new concepts, but they are invaluable when trying to learn command line for Linux. Below is a great collection of Linux Command Line Cheat sheets: UNIX/LINUX REFERENCE CARD The Humble Linux Cheat Sheet DOS to Linux Cheat Sheet Evelyn’s Linux Cheat Sheet Luke’s Cheat Sheet for […]
The Open Source community should be highly proud of Ubuntu. It seems to be the distro which most worry Microsoft in the Desktop market which is Microsoft Lead market. Actually Microsoft has posted for “Director Open Source Desktop Strategy at Microsoft” at linkedin. I was suprised that Microsoft are looking to hire some one at […]
Ah it seems virtualization is what going to unite the largest competing vendors. Yes, I am talking about Microsoft, Redhat, and Novell. Not too long back Novell who purchased SUSE has got in an agreement with Microsoft in regards of Virtualization. So with SUSE making the lead seems REDHAT is going the same route as […]
The next version of Ubuntu, whose development has reached the alpha stage 4, is surprisingly fast compared to its predecessor and Ubuntu 8.10 even without implementing the filesystem EXT4. You can notice the speed difference from the moment you boot up the system. On our test machine Ubuntu 9.04 were able to boot up in […]
Most companies these days restrict their internet access by forcing the usage of web proxy. If your company is forcing a proxy policy & you are running Redhat/CentOs/Fedora you will have to update your yum.conf to be able to update your desktop or server using yum over a proxy connection. Luckily setting up yum to […]
I have noticed that Fedora 11 (Leonidas) used ext4fs as file system by default. Ext4fs main features are: Compatibility with ext3FS Larger file system support (> 16T) larger File Size Support (> 2T) Scalability of subdirectories Extents Multi Allocation Delayed allocation fsck faster Checksum Journal Journal mode Online defragmentation Persistent pre-allocation Barriers Being Fedora 11 […]
With a total of 1108 votes of 2480 possible, the code name of Fedora 11 is as follows: Leonidas The other candidates names were untamed, Claypool, BrasÃlia, Blarney, Duchess, Zampone, Euryalus. The original note https: / / www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00010.html.
Red Hat, Inc., the leading global provider of open source solutions, has announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 on the 20th of Jan 2009. This third update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides a wide range of improvements, including virtualization, significantly increased scalability, expanded hardware platform and supported the inclusion […]