July 2008

Lazy Linux: 10 Essential Tricks for Admins Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 @ 9:52 AM by mayhem
Anonymous writes "In this article, learn how to be a more productive Linux systems administrator. These 10 essential tricks will lead you on your way to being one powerful Linux systems administrator. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems."
 
CentOS 5.2 Released Posted Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 10:52 AM by mayhem
The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.2. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

* Links: Distro Release Announcement | LiveCD Release Announcement
* Documentation: CentOS 5
* Screenshots
* Reviews: Linux.com
* Release Notes: CentOS | Upstream