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Keeping RHEL Alive: Hplip Update

Posted on January 18, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Mail Server

Posted on January 18, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Samba Server (Updated)

Posted on January 17, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Sun Java

Posted on January 16, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL 6 for the Clueless: Generic Software Build

Posted on January 15, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL 6 and Trial Subscription: Keeping It Alive

Posted on January 14, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL 6 for the Clueless: More RPM

Posted on January 14, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL for the Clueless: RPM

Posted on January 13, 2011 by ehurst

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 →

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RHEL for the Clueless: Fonts

Posted on January 12, 2011 by ehurst

Linux is capable of superior font display handling. On my hardware, it’s better than any version of Windows, but it’s not turned on in RHEL by default. There are several issues involved. First, let’s get some better fonts. If you … Continue reading →

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RHEL Series Note: Samba

Posted on January 11, 2011 by ehurst

Once we finish the desktop tutorial series here, we will jump right into the low level server stuff. This evening I got Samba working and my wife’s computer can now browse shared folders and open the files. Also, in order … Continue reading →

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