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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Motives, Objectives, Imperatives
I want you to be free. There probably isn’t much I can do for you, simply because freedom cannot be a matter of me doing for you. Freedom is you taking hold of the choices we deny ourselves. Most of … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: More Servers
Because RHEL is essentialy an industrial grade commercial product, you’d have to expect it can run more types of server than most people would ever need. We covered the Samba server in a previous lesson as the most common need … Continue reading
Keeping RHEL Alive: Hplip Update
In trying to keep RHEL 6 up to date without support, I am sometimes both amazed and disappointed at the way Red Hat keeps some of the SRPMs out of reach. The RHSA notice presents a minor security warning about … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Mail Server
If you are running RHEL, you are already running a mail server. It’s installed by default and setup to run. Of course, it only delivers mail locally, and only from sources within your own machine. Right now, there are no … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Samba Server (Updated)
If you intend using your RHEL machine as a server among Windows machines, one of the first things you should consider is using Samba. This is the Open Source implementation of Windows’ SMB. Samba allows your RHEL box to provide … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Sun Java
The bundled Open Java on RHEL is okay. It’s also painfully slow, particularly compared to the competition. Most people still call it Sun Java, though it’s now owned by Oracle. Because we have installed the development packages, we have the … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Generic Software Build
For our last desktop oriented article, I promised we would build one item using the generic Open Source scripted building process. For this project, I chose something only slightly complicated, and likely to be favored by most users: PySolFC, the … Continue reading
RHEL 6 and Trial Subscription: Keeping It Alive
This is just a side note on my series RHEL 6 for the Clueless. I obtained my copy of RHEL 6 using the free trial offer from Red Hat. For a month, you could continue getting Yum updates for free. … Continue reading
RHEL 6 for the Clueless: More RPM
With a little less hand-holding this time, I am going to outline for you building a bigger SRPM project which had lots of dependencies. When you run that rpmbuild command on a spec file, one of the first things to … Continue reading
RHEL for the Clueless: RPM
You probably know everything on your computer is just zeroes and ones, grouped together in eights and sixteens, and so forth. You might know a bunch of folks type out lines of instructions (“code”) for computers which have to be … Continue reading