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Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB)

Reviews The Fusion-io ioDrive is in a performance field of its own. Home users are much better off RAIDing a few SSDs together; however, for those running servers that need extra throughput now, the Fusion-io represents an expensive, but justifiable, saviour.

Thursday, June 25 2009 11:30 AM

Tags: Gamer, PCI Express, Chip, Card, Ubuntu, NAND, operating system, Fusion-io, firmware, hard drive

Programmers bypass Red Hat Linux fees

News Red Hat spent months making the newest version of its premium product. Outside programmers released a free clone in less than two weeks.

Monday, March 28 2005 09:12 AM

Tags: Linux server OS

Red Hat hopes to solidify lead with new Linux

News Red Hat hopes its latest release will lock in its position as the Linux leader, as more companies vie for a piece of the competitive market.

Thursday, March 15 2007 11:26 AM

Tags: Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS

Secure and stable server setup with CentOS

Techguide CentOS is an operating system that is completely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here's how to optimize CentOS setup with RPMForge and Utter Ramblings repositories.

Monday, May 25 2009 08:49 AM

Tags: Open source, Operating systems, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Red Hat Inc., Plug-in, CentOS, Grep, Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Install OpenVZ to create virtual containers

Techguide OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualization product that allows you to fully isolate processes from each other, increase security by keeping bits separate and tightly control resource utilization. Find out how to install it on CentOS.

Monday, June 15 2009 09:02 AM

Tags: Linux, Virtualization, Virtual Machine, CentOS, Kernel, BSD, Canada, 32-bit, Virtualization, Linux

Encrypt filesystems with LVM

Techguide The Logical Volume Manager allows for easy partitioning in Linux and offers encryption by volumes, not just an entire partition.

Sunday, May 31 2009 03:38 PM

Tags: Open source, Linux, Fedora Project, Red Hat Inc., Volume, File System, CentOS, Password, Vincent Danen, Canada

CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny

News Programmers behind the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone demand that its founder share project control--or maybe they'll leave.

Friday, July 31 2009 09:31 AM

Tags: Linux, Open source, PayPal, Red Hat Inc., Project, Open-source Software, Developer, Advertisement, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, proprietary software

Setting up a dynamic DNS service: dhcpd

Techguide In this followup to our previous report, we configure ISC's dhcpd service, which will serve the DHCP-based IP addresses to clients and update the DNS records accordingly.

Monday, September 28 2009 11:36 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Domain Name, DNS Server, IP, IP Address, MAC, Server, DNS, dynamic DNS, Operating systems

Setting up a dynamic DNS service

Techguide Vincent Danen shows you how to configure the BIND side of a dynamic DNS service.

Sunday, September 13 2009 12:58 PM

Tags: Linux, Open source, Network administration/implementation, IP, DHCP, BIND, DHCP Server, Server, DNS, dynamic DNS

Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system

News Company updates its Constellation System for high-performance computing, covering software, networking and storage.

Wednesday, June 24 2009 12:29 PM

Tags: TOOLKIT, Software, Linux, Data Management

Create an OpenVZ container

Techguide OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualization system that allows you to virtualize Linux-on-Linux, but it works on the principle of containers, not virtual machines. Here's how to create an OpenVZ container.

Monday, July 13 2009 10:07 AM

Tags: Open source, Linux, Virtualization, Gentoo, Fedora Project, CPU, Debian, Grep, DNS, Canada

Create your own yum repository

Techguide Learn how to create your own yum repository with the createrepo tool. One thing it allows you to do is distribute specialized packages within an organization.

Sunday, July 05 2009 11:07 PM

Tags: Open source, Operating systems, Infrastructure/architecture management, Repository, Fedora Project, Red Hat Inc., client system, Tool, Yum, computer

Novell woos Red Hat developers

News The extension of the openSuse development environment allows apps and other software to be written for rival Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise.

Sunday, January 27 2008 10:04 PM

Tags: Linux

Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters

News The package managers used by most BSD and Linux systems could be exploited to install compromised software on target systems, claims a report.

Tuesday, July 15 2008 07:26 AM

Tags: Security, Open source, Linux, Manager, Ubuntu, Password, Flaw, OpenSSL, BSD, Attacker