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Yesterday I was setting up my new “workstation” at work {a simple HP Pavillion with Vista Home premium - sigh! - and a Core2 Duo cpu } with a new installation of CentOS 5.1 (even if initially I was really motivated to go with Ubuntu).
Then I came to install one of the most upsetting [...]

Recently I’m studying some manuals to help the strategy decision of updating our 15 HP machines cluster to a more recent version of the operating system, splitting it in 2 functional branches.
One for GRID like calculation and one for a proprer application cluster.
Since the systems now runs something between Red Hat AS [...]

Ping !
Not dead, only a really busy schedule at the office.
Have been playing with VirtualHosts for the first time and with a INFN Grid host machine installation …. have been forced to have 2 machine with Scientific Linux on and then only the  worker nodes under CentOS (transition in the next weeks).
SL + INFN’s Grid [...]

The CentOS distribution is becoming more and more popular and reliable given the quality of the work done in those last two years.
Also a distribution widely used in scientifics environments like Scientific Linux (made by “actors” like the CERN and FermiLabs) is planning to switch from REHL codebase to CentOS one, and that I [...]

Finally a couple of days ago the release 5 of the Community ENTerprise Operating System (commonly known as CentOS) has been released.
This time the annouce was spreaded by Karanbir Singh, one of the manteiners of the project:
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures.
CentOS-5 is based [...]

A quick note to submit to your attention the nice article by U.K. online magazine Linux Format on the “new, more open Red Hat” covering the latest features of the distro alongside a little “gallery” of interviews to Max Spevack from Fedora, Karanbir Singh from CentOS and Nick Carr from RedHat itself.
Read it [...]

For the second time I have the impression of having been a little ahead of times when reporting some news.
This time I’m referring to my post “CentOS 5, first rumors” which is seeing a growing trend of access in these days:

Well, the wait is near the end and today we the 13th March we [...]

One of the nicest things read yesterday during my retrieval of feeds-to-read was the following annoucement. According to Karanbir (CentOS 3 and 5 PowerPC arch leader):
And finally, when is CentOS-5/Beta going to be released ? Very soon. I’ve just got finished with a few test installs for i386 and will be passing this onto [...]

I’ll write today a typical post to remember myself something.
TUAW has linked a couple of days ago an article on how to deploy an Apple NetBoot service in your enviroment using a CentOS Linux distribution.
Jeff McCune and others have found their way to implement this feature of the Mac OS X Server (which [...]

Hi people,
with the help of 2 friends of mine I’ve realized two versions of CentOS buttons to insert in your signature on forums or your blog or whatever.
Obviously they are visible, among others, on the Flickr’s Centos group photo pool and here it is a sneak peek:
one:
and two:
Enjoy !