Going where the mind takes you, the norm is irrelevant!
| The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is | = | 2.6.28 |
| The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is | = | 2.6.28-git6 |
| The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is | = | 2.4.37 |
| The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is | = | 2.2.26 |
| The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is | = | 2.2.27-rc2 |
| The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is | = | 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 |
September 4th, 2008 ··· andarius
I have been under the pile of to-dos lately but I am working on getting things moving again. Primary task as of late was the addition of a new server. I got an IBM xSeries 330 from ebay for 47$ after shipping. This machine replaced photon which was an aging and bad cap latent AMD Athlon 2200 system.
The new IBM (well new to me) is a dual pIII system @ 1.4 GHz with 1.5 gigs of ram. It was sold as only having a single 18.2 GB SCSI HD but arrived with a pair of them which are now using Linux software raid1. It is now up and running well after replacing the CMOS battery. Current uptime is 33 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes without a hitch.
More details to include some Slackware installation notes and pics to follow soon.
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May 11th, 2008 ··· andarius
On the second of May Slackware 12.1 was released. While I no longer run Slackware on my desktop system it still lives on my server machine. So an upgrade was in order of course.
While I don’t really favor upgrades it is an upgrade of versions. To prep a full copy of /etc, /root, and /var was made to the /home partition. After that I did a clean install on while leaving the home partition untouched. Once that was done it was rather simple to restore what I needed from the backup location and photon was back in service rather quickly. Would have been quicker had I not stopped to eat chow and watch a movie but oh well. I still had all services back on line in less time than a normal install of Windows.
I would not say there are any major upgrades that went down. Then again I have not had time to get under the hood and play around. At any rate it is up and running and I am sure it will be as stable as 12.0 which ran rock solid from the day I booted photon up in place till I shut photon down for the upgrade. A run of 90 days plus a little.
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April 10th, 2008 ··· andarius
I am reminded daily how lazy and spoon fed the average person is these days. I shall give you a prime example which I actually witnessed first hand myself.
While serving as the IMO/ISAO of a company I was tasked to update and add some software to a good number of machines. I had just finished doing this to the machine of one of our senior personnel. I asked this person to log in and check things out to make sure all was OK. As standard policy the log-in screen is the standard Press ctl+alt+del deal. I sat in stunned awe as this person who had been using this very computer for several months at a minimum proceeded to click on that window for nearly a whole minute. After this time I could contain myself no longer an said “I think you actually have to use the keys”. The user did so and was presented with the actual log in screen as expected.
My point here is not management is some what lacking these days in most cases. This is a point most of us already know. My point is the average person is so spoon fed that they will not even bother to read a simple message that is presented directly in front of them. Even if that message obviously pertains to the task at hand. Forget about reading a document or manual to learn how to do something.
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February 11th, 2008 ··· andarius
I was faced with a hard decision this last Saturday. The hard drive I used on eegor failed Friday night. So of course not having a suitable replacement on hand I had to decide on an upgrade path for the hardware I had.
When I am done I hope to have the final replacement for eegor running much closer to modern hardware with decent specs. It will be a dual machine with all SATA drives. Raid1 is in it’s future with plans to hit about 2-8 TB of capacity. Sucky thing is I did not have the cash to get anything needed to move me in that direction. What to do, what to do.
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January 13th, 2008 ··· andarius
I thought I had written something up on this before but am unable to find it. Just in case here it is again.
My move to CRUX was in the coming for some time. I was highly motivated to move to another distribution a little bit back when dealing with eegor. CRUX was recommended by a good guy in ##slackware (thrice’) on freenode among other channels.
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