Archive for the 'Red Hat' Category

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 [...]

( this time for real !!! )

Thanks to Francesco Ugolini, one of the (if not THE) most active Fedora Project’s ambassadors here in Italy, I’ve learned the existence of an apposite gallery page where the graphics of the newcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 overviewd by Diana Fong, one of the chief’s of Artwork team [...]

UPDATE
Since some not better specified problems occurred, the original poster of the images I was referring on the original post have been removed.
For the love of infomation I can say that what was visible reminded some concepts seen on RedHat 5 beta2. Personally i did like what I saw !
Sorry for the inconvenient occurred pals [...]

Goodbye, ESR

Have you heard about Eric S. Raymond leaving the Fedora project ?
If you - like me - are into “Linux” probably yes.
Well … what about the Alan Cox answer ?

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:03:50AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
* Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats with any attitude other [...]

new job

Please forgive me but since the 2nd of january I’ve took my new yearly job assignment in the regional department of the Institute for Biomedical Technologies of CNR:

ABOUT CNR
The National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors [...]

RHEL-5 is coming

With a couple of months of delay finally Red Hat, with an e-mail announcement into the mailing list dedicated to the issue, the 7th of september has announced to the world the release of the first “pubblic” beta of what will be ne new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
In the month of September, in [...]

Well, it seems that finally we have a nice, comprehensive, guide to the ” obscure ” world of SElinux.
SElinux is a project financed by NSA and others, to obtain a more secure Linux distribution. Fedora Core, and Red Hat which is behind it, have been early adopters of this technology (none of the other [...]

Found a nice reading today browsing deep in my feeds:Red Hat vs Novell, the differences
have a Nice Read
PS = in the mean time I’m still having some major problems with my SUSE machine, yesterday night @23.30 I had 3,33GB of updates to get - via the force update if available option via YaST [...]