July 20th, 2010 by Stargazer
Live and let live
Looking at the IT world, there are many systems to work with and many arguments against them. It’s amazing, but it’s common that users flame each other. Linux guys pick on Windows users, Windows users hit apple. In the end, everybody flames everybody. Fun?
But let’s face it: Every system got its advantages and disadvantages. You can just choose what to struggle with and rant about either Linus, Bill or Steve. Remember – nobody’s perfect.
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Finally!
May 12th, 2010 by Stargazer
Do you still remember my Lenovo W500 notebook? I was writing about the setup and the issue with the switchable graphic cards. You remember: It got two cards – one for the hard work and one for saving power. Switching only worked via BIOS or using Windows.
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Teamviewer now for Linux
April 29th, 2010 by Stargazer
I guess you all know my passion for Linux and that I am doing most work with it. But sadly there are always applications you need windows for, which requires a license and so on. But now the good news: Teamviewer is now available for Linux! So let’s take a look.
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CentOS locked into a chroot
April 8th, 2010 by Stargazer
It’s not only a question of security if you decide to lock some services of the system in a chrooted environment to minimize the damage they are able to cause. We know debootstrap as a cool and simple way of doing a very easy debian chroot.
Tags: chroot, centos, gentoo, linux
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CentOS strikes again
February 17th, 2010 by Stargazer
If things are running smoothly, things might get really nasty. Today’s special: KVM on CentOS 5.4
My plan was giving KVM a shot for virtualizing a couple of machines. So I inserted the CentOS CD and did a network install, added KVM and Virt-Manager.
Tags: centos, linux, virtualisation
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Extending CentOS
February 12th, 2010 by Stargazer
If you are a company, Gentoo Linux might not always be the best choice for you – especially as it’s not supported by enterprise products like the kerio mailserver, various backup systems or some database engines.
So I had to find a suitable distro and found that RedHat based thing called CentOS. In general, it’s said that it’s a quite secure distribution and it should do the trick – but the packages it offers could be considered as poor.
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KDE4 drives me crazy
December 6th, 2009 by Stargazer
Since a system update during the last days, my system does strange things. As taking a closer look, the troublemakers are related to KDE. My first clue was a broken dependency which causes services to crash – so I ran revdep-rebuild.
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