Displaying 20 results from an estimated 2000 matches similar to: "so when's 5.4 going to be out? :-)"
2010 Jan 20
2
centos courseware?
does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be
used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W
would, of course, be ideal, but if you have some decent training
manuals that you're willing to license on a per-manual basis, i'm
still willing to chat.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
2010 Feb 02
3
dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?
it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so,
on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered
to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i remember other solutions
like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard
these days?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
2010 May 01
1
how to build a centos kernel?
a couple folks on the local mailing list were asking about the
mechanics of building a kernel for a centos system, and they seemed to
suggest that there were some intricacies involved as opposed to other
distros. i've never tried it -- is there a trick or something? got a
pointer to the canonical web page that has the directions? thanks.
rday
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2010 Jan 23
4
any significant differences between centos and OEL?
someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle
enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm
curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be
any differences that would be worth caring about?
the only thing i can think of that might be worthwhile is that OEL
might change some of the default kernel parms thru
2009 Oct 18
5
the ongoing wait for centos 5.4
at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss
out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public
availability of centos 5.4.
here:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html
we read:
"The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked!
centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'.
2009 Jun 21
1
link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful
i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take
a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if
one goes to the "Support" -> "Commercial Support" page, it reads:
This Section or Page is coming soon.
that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a
promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual
2010 Jan 03
1
why no centos 5.3 or 5.4 online manuals?
i zipped over to centos.org to check out the 5.4 manuals, and what i
found was:
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/
which stops at 5.2. now, i don't really see this as a problem since i
can always get what i need here:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
i'm just curious as to whether centos is just not bothering to rebrand
the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info
2010 Feb 12
1
where is MySQL-zrm-client rpm package?
i was looking at options for backing up mysql databases across the
net, and ran across this:
http://www.zmanda.com/download-zrm.php
clearly, there are two rpms for linux:
* MySQL-zrm-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm
* MySQL-zrm-client-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm
but on a centos 5.4 system, if i do
# yum search zrm
i see only "MySQL-zrm.noarch". anyone know why the centos repo would
only know about
2009 Jun 23
4
RHEL, centos and seeing if i now understand this
ok, given the flurry of responses to my original post, let me see if
i have a handle on this as i think i've finally figured it out and,
yes, it does make sense.
the scenario is that there is a very large software company in the
area whose only officially supported linux platform is currently suse.
however, they are getting increasing call to have their product run on
red hat.
for most
2009 Dec 07
1
centos vs rhel vs scientific linux
i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about
3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL
(apparently 5.1). but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs,
i'm just going to hand everyone a centos 5.4 DVD and take it from
there.
as part of the intro, i want to briefly discuss the varieties of
linux related to RHEL, so obviously i want to
2009 Sep 28
0
fully open source ECM? yup.
it's all about the open source, baby.
http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html
DISCLAIMER: the lady in question is a good friend of mine. but don't
let that scare you off. :-)
rday
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Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux
2009 Dec 04
1
proper protocol for installing a *really* new package?
what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package
that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment, AFAICT,
the latest "poppler-utils" package for centos is 0.5.4. however, the
source is up to version 0.12:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
which matches the current fedora version, but that's not surprising
since, naturally, fedora zips right along
2010 Feb 16
2
[OT?] diffs between mysql 5.0 and 5.1, and upgrading to mysql 5.1?
being used to mysql 5.1 on my fedora system, i'm suddenly looking
after a centos 5.4 box with mysql 5.0.77. before i start digging into
the mysql 5.0-5.1 changelog, do i have a lot to worry about in terms
of mentally backing up one version? or is simply upgrading the centos
box to mysql 5.1 an option? (i realize that mysql 5.1 is *not*
officially supported in centos 5.4.)
rday
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2010 Feb 22
0
recommendations for SMS/EMS/MMS software simulation?
perhaps an open-ended request, but i'm looking for (if it even
exists) some centos 5.4 software that will let me completely simulate
the sending and reception of MMS messages on a local network which
(AFAICT) would require the simulation of the MMS centre as well
(MMSC).
so far, i've run across (yum-installable) gammu and i'm just
starting to take a look at it. but if anyone out
2010 Mar 01
0
another small glitch regarding 3rd party repos -- samba sernet link broken
(sorry, i'm not *trying* to be a pain, i am merely succeeding.)
once again, here:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
there's a reference to "The SerNet Samba 3 Repository" -- that link is
broken, the directory structure over at
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ has changed somewhat.
also, the current dirs over there go up to samba 3.4 but, as of
today,
2010 Feb 24
6
[OT?] recommendation for simple wiki S/W to run on centos 5.4?
any testimonials for some simple wiki software to run on centos 5.4
on an intranet? all i'm after is something uncomplicated that
(ideally) yum installs, and that others can start using to start
sharing useful info, nothing more. thoughts?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario,
2010 Mar 01
4
issues with 3rd party repos for centos
i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos
here:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for
centosplus reads:
"Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database
support, a rebuilt kernel with additional drivers & filesystem
support, php5 and mysql5."
2010 Jan 20
4
followup to request for centos C/W
just to follow on my earlier post, i have pointers to a couple
commercial C/W manuals for RHEL administration, but both of them use
an entire chapter discussing virtualization using Xen. i'm under the
impression that RH is firmly in the KVM camp (at least for now), and
that learning Xen on red hat/centos wouldn't be as useful as learning
KVM.
thoughts?
rday
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2010 Jun 12
2
[OT] introductory online kernel programming course
yes, it's OT but just in case folks here know someone who might be
interested, i'm writing and publishing a course to introduce people to
the joys of linux kernel programming:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-linux-kernel-programming
and, no, it's not free -- six months worth of course will cost you
all of $39 (CAD), but the first four
2010 Sep 25
2
possible additional comment regarding newer PHP
again, from here:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5
regarding a newer version of PHP, a number of PHP experts that i know
of suggest that, if you truly need an up-to-date version of PHP, you
should:
rpm -ivh http://rpms/famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
while remi collet's repo isn't official, it's accepted by numerous
developers as a reliable source of newer PHP