Ok, I’m committed now
Well, I’ve been working for Red Hat for two years, one month, and 14 days now. It’s actually amazing how time flies. I guess when you’re doing something you love, with amazing people you respect and enjoy working with, time has no real bearing on anything. When I first started working for Linux-Mandrake (now Mandriva)(…)
Towards responsible disclosure
This week was interesting, dealing with the supposed “OpenSSH 0day” vulnerability stuff… rumours, innuendo, strange logs and packet capture files… it made for a long week trying to keep an eye on this and sort fact from fiction. Instead of focusing on the issue itself like other blogs and news sites are doing, I thought(…)
The return of Annvix
Well, sort of. Annvix is not coming back as an operating system like it used to be, but rather a repository of packages for RHEL/CentOS (currently just version 5). There is very little there right now: a new version of openssh and a new version of logwatch. It will increase as time permits. I do(…)
Getting started with the yum package manager
This week’s TechMail is Getting started with the yum package manager which goes into some of the basics of using yum. This was good reference for me coming from years of urpmi, so digging into the use of yum was a good exercise for how I’m going to be dealing with packages from this point(…)