Brief description of Xen 3.4.1 and Libvirt 0.7.1 deployment to Fedora 12 Alpha (rawhide) follows bellow. F12 instance was created on the second drive. All my attempts to resize default LVM created by installer caused installer to crash.
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Linux Course: Understanding the GRUB Bootloader
This course provides a basic understanding of GRUB and gives you some illustrations on how to secure it and fix several common problems.
GRUB stands for Grand Unified Bootloader and was created in 1995 by Erich Boleyn as he wanted to have a multiboot option.
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KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Red Hat has released RHEL 5.4, a major point update of its commercial Linux distribution. This version introduces support for KVM, a significant milestone in Red Hat's evolving virtualization strategy.
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Fresh Roadmap for Firefox
The Mozilla Project has updated its roadmap for the coming versions of Firefox. The next big release, Firefox 4.0 with Geko1.9.4 underneath, is scheduled for the end of 2010.
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8 Useful and Interesting Bash Prompts
Many people don’t think of their command prompt as a particularly useful thing, or even pay it much attention. To me, this is a bit of a shame, as a useful prompt can change the way you use the command line.
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Kernel 2.6.31 to speed up Linux desktop
With the next version of the Linux kernel, 2.6.31, due for release soon, Linux desktop users can look forward to a faster experience in addition to USB 3.0 support and new Firewire drivers.
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Mirroring Web sites with wget
...once I heard the site might be going down, it was a mad rush between myself and many other security researchers to obtain a local mirror of the contents of the site for ourselves.
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Why Cron Is Better Than a String Around Your Finger
I've occasionally found it useful to set up reminders to be emailed to myself on a regular basis. The most straightforward tool to use for this is cron with mail.
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Migrating a live system from ext3 to ext4 filesystem
This article is meant to serve as a guide for migrating a live system from ext3 to an ext4 filesystem, including migration of files to use extents, a major feature in ext4.
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What about KUI -- Keyword User Interface?
I wanted to share this idea for a long time. Upon reading "Linux guru: interface innovation is the challenge" from linuxtoday, I realize that I can postpone no longer. My suggestion is simple: give users a simple entry box much like a google search box with cues (or possible keyword completions that get automatically displayed, if you are command-line-interface oriented like me).
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I was showing a friend how to be more productive while working in a terminal and she asked me about the keys I was pressing during the demonstration.
Read more »How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
This tutorial shows how you can upgrade your GRUB bootloader to GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 9.04. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for modularity and portability.
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Linux Apache Dual Stacked IPv4 and IPv6 Configuration
A growing number of platforms implement IPv6, allowing Apache to allocate IPv6 sockets and handle requests which were sent over IPv6. This article explains how to setup dual stacked, IPv4 and IPv6 enabled Apache networking under any Linux or UNIX like operating systems. You need to update httpd.conf file with the Listen directive.
Read more »How to monitor your Red Hat Cluster using Python and SNMP
Now that I am done with the implementation of RHE Cluster with GFS2, I now need to setup monitoring. As you all know, monitoring is a vital part of any environment. Even though we have a cluster of nodes setup, we still need to be aware of what is happening. I created two new commands. The first command is to emulate clustat, but through python and SNMP.
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Rails-like Quickly tools brings rapid development to Ubuntu
Canonical has created a new framework for Ubuntu called Quickly that aims to accelerate application development. It provides a set of command line tools for generating new programming projects, building packages, and releasing software.
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