DistroStuff

People often wonder how to get new capabilities—new packages, new features in existing packages, or even bug fixes—included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The process for doing so is straightforward, but may be foreign to those with a background in traditional software products. To summarize, the process is:1)Get the new code accepted upstream.2)Get it included [...]

Fri, 17 Oct 2008

Download this video: [Ogg Theora]Video by Colby Hoke.Red Hat engineer Dan Williams demonstrates the shared networking capabilities of Fedora 10.

Thu, 16 Oct 2008

Download this video: [Ogg Theora]Video by Islam Elsedoudi.Produced by Kim Jokisch and Jesse Paddock.We here at Red Hat are pleased to bring you a brand new set of videos aimed at showing off the latest and greatest enhancements in our technologies–featuring the very people who helped create them in the first place. The “SPOTLIGHT ON” [...]

Thu, 9 Oct 2008

co-authored with Grig GheorghiuBackgroundThe dd command is one of those ancient UNIX tools that is extremely powerful, yet at the same time, the syntax can make it feel slightly archaic. A lot of seasoned sysadmins and developers still remember the first time they saw the dd command used by a bearded wizard. He might have [...]

Thu, 2 Oct 2008

For Satellite:If the Satellite server is “connected”, then it will initiate outbound connections to ports 80 and 443 on the Red Hat Network (RHN) hosted service (rhn.redhat.com / satellite.rhn.redhat.com). Access to these hosts and ports should not be restricted to ensure correct functioning of the satellite system. If required, an HTTP(S) proxy may be used, [...]

Tue, 30 Sep 2008

If you’ve ever watched a video from Red Hat Magazine, you’ve probably heard the soundtracks in the background. Whether it’s the remixable Birdsong video or one of our other interviews or overviews, the music we use is often created in-house by our soundscape specialist. Napoleon creates custom music and animations for various Red [...]

Thu, 25 Sep 2008

1.) Firstly, lock the account to prevent the user from using the login until the change has been made:# usermod -L <username>2.) Change the password expiration date to 0 to ensure the user changes the password during the next login:# chage -d 0 <username>3.) To unlock the account after the change do the following:# usermod [...]

Mon, 22 Sep 2008

How will we get our media in the future? The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) may have something to say about that. From Newsweek.If you’re not following the Mars Phoenix on Twitter, you totally should be. Because a robot that celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day… from Mars? Awesome.In honor of Richard Wright’s [...]

Fri, 19 Sep 2008

With 1.4 billion people connected, the Internet is the greatest collaborative network that mankind has experienced. One of the consequences of the growth of this network is a shift in the way knowledge is being created and distributed. As we move to an interconnected world, the balance of power is shifting from old, proprietary [...]

Thu, 18 Sep 2008

Answer:The raw devices interface has been deprecated in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5. The rawdevices service and /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file no longer exist and raw devices are now configured via udev rules. However the preferred method for performing raw I/O (ie. bypassing filesystem caching) is to open EXT3/EXT2 files with the O_DIRECT flag.This is an excerpt [...]

Wed, 17 Sep 2008