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I’ve been working through some patches to OpenStack-Ansible lately to optimize how we configure yum repositories in our deployments.

After upgrading my Fedora 20 Xen hypervisor to virt-manager 1.

If you run bwm-ng and you’ve run a yum upgrade lately on Fedora 19, you have probably seen this:

The thought of using Linux as a manager in a highly Windows- and Mac-centric corporate environment isn’t something to be taken lightly.

I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing.

A coworker heard me grumbling about Linux system administration standards and recommended that I review the CIS Security Benchmarks.

A fellow Racker showed me httpry about five years ago and I’ve had in my toolbox as a handy way to watch HTTP traffic.

The grades came back last Friday and I’ve passed the last exam in the requirements to become a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

It’s not easy remembering which RPM packages contain certain files.

On most systems, using Fedora’s preupgrade package is the most reliable way to update to the next Fedora release.

As with the Fedora 10 to 11 upgrade, you can upgrade Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 using yum.

There are two main ways to upgrade Fedora 10 (Cambridge) to Fedora 11 (Leonidas):

Setting up new servers can be a pain if you’re not able to clone them from a server that is known to be working.

Although the idea of putting something from Microsoft on a Linux box might sound awful at first, you may find a reason to use Microsoft TrueType fonts on a Linux server.

If up2date throws some horrible Python errors and rpm says “rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries”, you can restore your system to normality with the following: