Red Hat
Two hours (and counting) with an upgrade to Fedora 11
This week’s TechMail is Two hours (and counting) with an upgrade to Fedora 11, in which I describe my initial experience with the upgrade of my laptop from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. All-in-all, the upgrade was good and has worked great. I have no complaints, except for two little things: Parcellite seems a little [...]
Create an OpenVZ container
This week’s TechMail is Create an OpenVZ container which discusses how to create your own OpenVZ container using pre-built templates. I’ve really fallen in love with OpenVZ; I find it much simpler and much faster than VMware or other full virtualization solutions. It’s a real shame that it doesn’t work with SELinux and that the [...]
Sappy, but…
Yeah, this is one of those sappy posts. But I like to think it’s worth the few minutes of my time to write it, and it’s something I’ve really noticed and I’d like to share my appreciation. I’ve made it past my first 90 days at Red Hat and I sure am glad I made [...]
Create your own yum repository
This week’s TechMail is Create your own yum repository which pretty much discusses the createrepo tool and how to use it to create your own custom yum repository. Handy little tool; this came about when I was figuring out how to make a yum repository for my Annvix packages.
Get a handy multi-item clipboard with Glipper
This week’s TechMail is Get a handy multi-item clipboard with Glipper which talks about using Glipper to manage a multi-item clipboard. When I started using Fedora daily for work, this was one of the first things I had to find for it simply because I’ve been using these multi-clipboard utilities on OS X for years. [...]
Install OpenVZ on CentOS to create a virtual container
This week’s TechMail is Install OpenVZ on CentOS to create a virtual container which discusses using the OpenVZ virtualization software. I have to admit, I’ve become extremely fond of OpenVZ. I stumbled upon it as the open source version of Virtuozzo which is used by a lot of VPS providers and I completely understand why. [...]