Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Pulling Gnome off of RedHat

If X and Gnome are already installed on RedHat it can be tricky to remove them with yum. However, a friend of mine reports success using pirut to remove them. It warns that it is about to remove itself, but it does seem to work. Packages that are not dependencies of the X and Gnome package tree are not removed.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

fscking

I've become very interested in fscking. I'm going to keep a link to various pages on fscking that I find interesting. We'll start with something friendly, like how even apples need fscking and then get into some more detail:
  1. Apple Knowledgebase: Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck (TS1417)
  2. Andy's Unix FAQ: The In's and Out's of Fsck - Dealing with corrupt filesystems

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Red Hat's Virtualization Plan for 2009

RedHat is moving away from Xen and towards KVM. KVM will be available in a package called RHEV-H: a stateless hypervisor, with a tight footprint of under 128MB, which presents a libvirt interface to the management tier. Enterprise servers will no longer need to go through an installation process, and will instead be able to boot RHEV-H from flash or a network server, and be able to immediately begin servicing virtual guests. KVM will also be native to RHEL5.4. RedHat will also be working with Microsoft to certify hosting of Windows servers on top of their virtualization platform.

Update: Useful links: