Even though I like Windows, Mac, Linux, or anything else that runs a box of parts thrown together, I always feel a great joy when reading about Tux stomping some butt. Linux Based HPC’s – over 80% Windows Based HPC’s – 1% http://www.top500.org/stats/list/32/os 🙂
I’ve always liked SuSE….even after Novell took them over. So this morning I was browsing my normal Linux news stops and noticed this tidbit of joy. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10148796-16.html http://www.susestudio.com/ Take some time and read it over……..pretty cool. 😉
Quick Tips from the field. If you’re running a Linux host with a Linux guest and are having issues with your keyboard keys being mapped wrong inside your VM. (Like my up arrow was remapped to “Print” etc) Then you can try the following. edit the following file: /etc/vmware/config Add…
Let me just say I’m a big VMware fan. And since they started giving out ESXi for free, I try to pass on the love as much as possible. However, sticking to open source values is very important to me for many reasons, and I recently discovered Xen is going…
Just a quick tip that might help out the folks needing something better than gcj and still using an open version of Java. On CentOS 5.2 : rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm yum install -y java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel java-1.6.0-openjdk 😉 Hope that makes someone’s life easier!
If you’ve found yourself in a Network/System Admin position without the proper tools, and can’t seem to get them, there’s usually a way to do things for free with Linux or at least using the repos provided under an enterprise support package such as RHEL. 🙂 This is for monitoring who’s chewing up…
