Monthly Archives: January 2008
The kernel evolution speed
Apc quotes Jonathan Corbet on his “The Kernel Report” talk in LCA 2008: “We are adding about 2000 lines of code to the kernel every single day of the year, without exception,” Corbet said. “Nobody can really keep up with … Continue reading
Filed under Proud to use free software
tar.bz2 sources in debian
Reading Raphael’s Misc development news (#2), I thought I can now upload packages with orig.tar.bz2 sources. Dak quickly replied an error, and the ftp-masters verified that this feature isn’t available (yet). So, for people like me, who didn’t read the … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux
My thoughts on RHEL 5.1 installation
I decided to test RHEL 5.1 to check what changed since RHEL 4. As I usually do a network installation, I had a few surprises. The installation was done with qemu (with kqemu module) on an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ … Continue reading
Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Why does Oracle’s applications needs xscreensaver in order to run ?
Working with some of Oracle’s products, made me wonder about their installation requirements as appears in the documentation. Let start with Oracle® Database 10g Release 2. The installation guide for linux x86 says under “Checking the Software Requirements” it needs … Continue reading
Filed under Proprietary software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Who moved my PEs (or why does pvmove sucks on linux) ?
Yesterday I wanted to extend an existing LVM VG with some central storage disks. In the process, I notice the VG is built upon local & external disk, which isn’t according to my standards. So I decided to extend the … Continue reading
Filed under Red Hat Enterprise Linux
usertag support for mass-bug script
While working on mass bug filling in Debconf, I noticed problems with specifying user & usertags in mass-bug’s templates. Which resulted with some manual work to tag all the reported bugs after getting the bugs’ numbers. Thanks to Mohammed Adnène … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux
Responsible Behavior
For all those DDs who love to drink: (click to enlarge) By xkcd, A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux
