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RHEL mystery

November 3, 2008

What are the mysterious unnamed packages on a RedHat Enterprise Linux system?

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A wakeup call for commercial Linux

September 1, 2008

PC World is reporting on a survey showing that community-supported Linux is growing in business at the expense of RedHat and SuSE. This doesn’t surprise me at all. I run systems using both free and commercial Linux distributions, and the free ones are consistently less of a pain to maintain. One of the biggest factors [...]

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The right way to do Linux hardware

July 28, 2008

VIA releases specs and source for their graphics and crypto hardware.

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IBM machine type and model under Linux

July 18, 2008

How to find out the IBM part number (machine type) from the command line.

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