#os Articles


  • 2012-05-03
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Linux's ctrl-alt-SysRq - Magic SysRq Key

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, awesome. Looks like you can do lots of fun stuff here in case you get a stalled system. Quite fun that this is a quite useful thing and I have never heard of this before. Maybe Linux community is being quiet about this …

  • 2012-03-10
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openstack testing day

Only one day late! I actually started installing this on the 8th but I forgot to install it to hdd so the 'yum update' failed and broke the machine with I/O errors :) Installing it in a VMWare Workstation (fedora 64-bit type, 2, cores, 4G RAM, 20G disk). http://fedoraproject …

  • 2012-03-08
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CentOS 5.8 Released

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 …

  • 2012-02-27
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Dragonfly - Testing another OS

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ Install It's based on ... BSD! (FreeBSD 4.8 is apparently what dragonfly span off from) What's weird is that while VMWare Workstation scans the iso (to find which OS it is) it stops responding (other VMs are unaffected). It finds FreeBSD 64-bit. It has a 'hammer' …

  • 2011-11-24
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Install FreeBSD in VirtualBox

The Past I used to run FreeBSD 5 and 6 about eight years ago on a Pentium III 900MHz machine with maybe 768MB RAM. It was very slow but after a lot of tinkering with the kernel I got it to boot and run very nicely. Fluxbox was the window …

Latest FOS ( Fabric OS ) Firmware on HP's Brocade SAN switches

How to find the latest firmware for an HP Brocade SAN switch How to find out which Brocade Firmware is the latest and which is the last supported one? On HP SPOCK: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/ (this required an HP Passport, they are free to create). Go to Switches …

  • 2011-02-01
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Brocade SAN Switch Firmware Upgrades

Overview Table of Contents Overview Updates in this article Old Updates < 2013 Old Updates < 2020 More Recent Updates Steps Decide Download firmware links Firmware Upgrade Order Release notes FOS Notes from the release notes DCFM: Data Centre Fabric Manager / BNA: Brocade Network Advisor Updates to documents Fabric Watch and MAPS …