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Install testing kernels in Fedora

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28 February 2018 · 3 min · 465 words · Major Hayden

GRE tunnels with systemd-networkd

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16 October 2015 · 5 min · 868 words · Major Hayden

Stumbling into the world of 4K displays [UPDATED]

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1 July 2015 · 3 min · 638 words · Major Hayden

Book Review: Linux Kernel Development

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21 June 2015 · 4 min · 760 words · Major Hayden

Keep old kernels with yum and dnf

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18 May 2015 · 1 min · 206 words · Major Hayden

Review: Lenovo X1 Carbon 3rd generation and Linux

After a boatload of challenges with what I thought would be my favorite Linux laptop, the Dell XPS 13 9343, I decided to take the plunge on a new Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen). My late-2013 MacBook Pro Retina (MacbookPro11,1) had plenty of quirks when running Linux and I was eager to find a better platform. ...

30 March 2015 · 4 min · 852 words · Major Hayden

Lessons learned from a kernel bisection

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9 February 2015 · 3 min · 494 words · Major Hayden

Moving from OS X to Linux: Day One

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27 August 2013 · 7 min · 1418 words · Major Hayden

Installing the Xen hypervisor on Fedora 19

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3 June 2013 · 3 min · 596 words · Major Hayden

Xen 4.1 on Fedora 15 with Linux 3.0

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6 August 2011 · 3 min · 636 words · Major Hayden

Keep all old kernels when upgrading via yum

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16 June 2011 · 1 min · 204 words · Major Hayden

Tap into your Linux system with SystemTap

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8 December 2010 · 4 min · 641 words · Major Hayden
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Keep web servers in sync with DRBD and OCFS2

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3 December 2010 · 3 min · 535 words · Major Hayden

Legacy tty1 and block device support for Xen guests with pvops kernels

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14 May 2010 · 2 min · 311 words · Major Hayden

A New Year System Administrator Inspiration

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4 January 2010 · 3 min · 560 words · Major Hayden

Parse kernel.org changelogs with wget and grep

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15 December 2009 · 1 min · 108 words · Major Hayden

Fedora 11 httpd: alloc_listener: failed to get a socket for (null)

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14 August 2009 · 1 min · 129 words · Major Hayden

Two great signals: SIGSTOP and SIGCONT

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15 June 2009 · 2 min · 278 words · Major Hayden

Linux: emergency reboot or shutdown with magic commands

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30 January 2009 · 2 min · 416 words · Major Hayden

Linux: Adjust storage kernel module load order

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26 January 2009 · 3 min · 528 words · Major Hayden

Reducing inode and dentry caches to keep OOM killer at bay

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4 December 2008 · 3 min · 613 words · Major Hayden

Reduce disk I/O for small reads using memory

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7 August 2008 · 2 min · 353 words · Major Hayden

Rebuilding the initial ram disk (initrd)

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28 January 2008 · 1 min · 85 words · Major Hayden

ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet

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24 January 2008 · 1 min · 211 words · Major Hayden