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I thought VMware Server was great. The performance of Guest OSes were fast enough for me. Then I tried out the VMware Tools! Whoa! What a difference. I am not sure where they are when you do a RPM installation, but if you download the tar.gz file, you can [...]

Johnny Hughes sent the official CentOS 4.4 announcement this morning. Major changes are listed as:
Mozilla has been replaced by Seamonkey, Ethereal has been replaced by Wireshark. Firefox and Thunderbird have moved from the 1.0.x to 1.5.x versions. Openoffice.org has moved from the 1.1.2-x to the 1.1.5-x version.
Release notes can be [...]

Here’s a non-scientific survey…It’s not that big of a surprise which distro of Linux was the most popular.

Ubuntu (29.2%)
Debian (12.2%)
openSUSE (10.1%)
Gentoo (9.6%)
Fedora (7%)

This survey definitely does not represent what is actually deployed.

It took me a little to figure this out (including a visit to the #centos IRC channel on freenode.net), but I finally got the upgrade from CentOS 4.3 to 4.4 working.
My problem was that when I stuck the DVD in and booted, it got to a point where it went searching for a previous [...]

I read this in the recent edition of Wired that I got.  Now it’s been made public on wired.com.  It is a great article that explores Sony the corporation and their big gamble on the PS3.  The article is excellent and gives a lot of good information about Sony and how they have gotten [...]

It looks like CentOS 4.4 is now being propagated out to mirrors. Hopefully a bittorrent seed for the DVD will be available soon. I have a lot of the 4.4 updates installed already (from yum), but I am curious what an “upgrade” from media will be like.
Update: CentOS 4.4 ISOs are on [...]

Like to hack? Come to Yahoo! Hack Day.
Yahoo! is opening up its campus to all hackers to come and hack for a whole day (24 straight hours!).
We’ll kick things off on Friday, September 29th with a free all-day developer workshop. Then we’ll launch a 24-hour Hack Day with an outdoor party into the [...]