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by chasil 9y ago
Oracle Linux is the only direct upgrade path for CentOS (afaik). A full reinstall is required to move from CentOS to RHEL. Oracle has a procedure to directly convert CentOS, RHEL, and Scientific Linux into a supported Oracle Linux system. K
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by chasil 9y ago
We use both RHEL and Oracle Linux as a peer to VAX VMS and Unisys(Univac) OS2200 (a COBOL mainframe). From the perspective of legacy systems, Red Hat's approach is more comfortable.
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by chasil 9y ago
XFS does not support transparent compression, error detection and recovery, and (as yet) deduplication. Fragmentation is also an issue, and xfs_fsr should be run at regular intervals to "defrag" an XFS file system. (I assume that)
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by chasil 9y ago
Oracle has essential control of both "nextgen" filesystems that should be used in Linux - as Sun, they developed and licensed ZFS, and they are the chief contributors of BtrFS. Their refusal to release ZFS under a license that is
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by chasil 9y ago
GNU BASH is a branch of the Bourne-shell family. Korn shell is a much more complete and capable variant of Bourne. BASH partially implemented many Korn features, but not everything. The standard reference is the Korn and Bolsky book (2nd ed
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by chasil 9y ago
Here is what I use (notice that I omit zero and the letter O): $ ./LinPass.sh luser xTJ2B2X3 $ ./LinPass.sh luser JzILD3qd $ ./LinPass.sh luser IzlXki81 $ cat LinPass.sh #!/bin/bash id "${1}" > /de
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by chasil 9y ago
In the U.S., the TJ Maxx and Marshall's liquidation department stores often carry it in the winter. The most poignant comment from anyone to whom I have introduced it was "a flower shop just exploded in my mouth." I am partia
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by chasil 9y ago
A systemd replacement is going to need: - an integrated inetd that can launch non-root processes - ability to chroot() any application at launch - inotify capability (path units) - consistent scripted application startup and control Just ab
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by chasil 9y ago
More importantly, "transposons" (endogenous retro-viruses) spray damage all over a normal human cell's DNA about once a month. The damage would be cumulative. Gamete cells have special mechanisms to control transposon activit
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Blind your ISP with Tor(linuxjournal.com)
3 points by chasil 10y ago|0 comments
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Barnes and Noble's latest tablet is running spyware from Shanghai(linuxjournal.com)
3 points by chasil 10y ago|0 comments