CentOS 5.8 was released today 8th of March. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.8 You can download it from many mirrors, for example from FUNET: http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/INSTALL/Centos/ It installs just fine on an HP DL360 G7 with P410 and P411 controller …

http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/linux-break-in-howto.html On RHEL 6.2-based systems (like Scientific Linux 6.2): edit /etc/sysconfig/init # Set to '/sbin/sulogin' to prompt for password on single-user mode # Set to '/sbin/sushell' otherwise Like this: SINGLE=/sbin/sulogin Then if you add an 's' to the …

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html Micro Core Linux! Like super small! WOop woop... http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html Three versions: Core Core (8MB) - CLI only This literally boots in 3 seconds after pressing enter at the boot loader, nice! To get root access hit: 'sudo sh' …

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=incognito It looks like it's been renamed to 'tails'. It is based on Debian, is a LiveCD and it's purpose is to preserve anonymity and privacy. When you install it in a VM it gives a pop-up to this link saying that running it …

You can use rtmpdump on linux to download videos from a page that uses rtmpe / flash to display the videos. If you want to, you can also run an ssh tunnel. This could be used with benefit if you want to watch videos from a web site that you can't …

There's a couple of places (naturally). It's easy to be fooled and think: "anybody can type man man". But in all fairness, you need to figure out which man page to look into, or what command to run and sometimes it's just a blank. In RHEL there is /usr/share …

I just received the EXAM results. This was on Sunday at around 1500 Finnish time. About three days after I took the exam, these guys must be working on the weekend to check the results! Result: 300/300!

Wow, there's lots of it in there. Some of it is about networking and a lot about individual services. I haven't actually planned to go get the exam soon, but I think just going through these objectives will make me better at Linux. Anyway, if I pass the RHCE, that …

Just did the exam. Not bad at all, I really enjoyed this hands-on exam. Great way to test someone's skills, although I thought it would be harder. But maybe I got lucky with the tasks. I believe this RHCSA Rapid Track (along with My Own Preparation (tm)) and learning how …

Last day! A little more kickstarting, LVM - logical volume management and File ACL. Then a rehearse of the previous chapters. Feeling a bit excited about tomorrow! These ACL were a bit more complex than I thought, but they could be made very complicated if you want to. But there's the …