Category: linux

RedHat and CentOS

January 11, 2014 Emil C
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Few days ago a press release announcing “RedHat and CentOS Join Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation” has put some thoughts into some people that started articles called “Hell Freezes Over in Linux Land as Red Hat Makes Nice With Its Clone“. No guys, you got it wrong! First of…
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TIP: Debian/Ubuntu prevent accidental halts/reboots

August 15, 2013 Emil C
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If you’re connected to a server via SSH as root and accidentaly you type in “reboot” or “poweroff” this might really happend. To avoid this you could simply install a package: apt-get install molly-guard After this, if you type, for instance, “reboot” you will be prompted with your server’s hostname…
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Gnome Shell on an Eee PC

March 12, 2013 Emil C
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I’ve always loved Gnome3 (or Gnome Shell). The revolutionary idea that changes everything about the desktop is fantastic. The only real issue I could and would have with it, and it did make me nuts long time ago, is the fact that some Windows are just to big to be…
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Running on MariaDB

February 7, 2013 Emil C
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An old and good friend of mine kept telling me that MariaDB is faster and better that the good old MySQL, that wince Oracle got it, MySQL is not what it used to be. So I decided to try it. I went to MariaDB website, to “Repository Configuration Tool”, chose…
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Samba 4

December 13, 2012 Emil C
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Samba 4 represents a new era in Linux-Windows interoperability. This project was long expected, i mean, ever since the “Active Directory” words are around… it was about time to get it finished. It comes with up to date features of SMB file-sharing protocols, it can be integrated with existing Active…
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excited about linux 3.6

October 2, 2012 Emil C
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Linux 3.6 it’s been released, with some important features: Btrfs: subvolume quotas, quota groups, snapshot diff, cross-subvolume file clones Suspend to disk and memory at the same time Support for SMBv2 protocol TCP Fast Open (client side) Bufferbloat fight: TCP small queues Safe swap over NFS/NBD ext4: better quota support…
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Gnome 3.6 Released

September 28, 2012 Emil C
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As we could read on GNOME‘s website improvements were made: Big improvements to notifications, including a redesigned Message Tray, smarter notifications, and other tweaks and refinements. An enhanced Activities Overview with an improved layout. A greatly enhanced Files application, with functional file search, a new Recent location, redesigned interface and…
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