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A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare?

This week’s TechMail is A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare? (not the title I chose, but I guess my editor figured it needed my “flare”). Basically talks about my first impressions of using Fedora 10, considering I’ve more or less exclusively used Mandriva for the last 9+ years, and [...]

Upgrading Mandriva 2009.0 to CentOS 5.2

Well, technically speaking, I guess this is a bit of a downgrade. But, since I’m not longer using Mandriva and need to get used to Red Hat products (Fedora, RHEL, etc.), CentOS makes sense for upgrading my internal server to. It was also a long week, so I goofed a bit on it (I did [...]

First days at Red Hat, first impressions

Well, I took my first trip to the USA, ever, this week and it was down to Raleigh, NC, for orientation with Red Hat. I’d like to say it was an experience (meaning the trip), but it wasn’t… I was mostly fighting too hard to stay awake so it all really seems like a haze [...]

Switching Hats

So, I’ve gotten quite a few emails about what I’m going to be up to, so to save myself having to type the same thing over and over, here’s the lowdown. I’ll be hanging out with Adam for two days in February… you can see where he’s going to be from his job announcement. I [...]