I recently installed Ubuntu server (including the GNOME desktop) on a new machine which I want to run headless (that is without a monitor). It seems that Ubuntu feels the need to be physically connected to a monitor to properly boot. Without the monitor the system wouldn’t boot or if it did it would be impossible to [...]
READ MORE »Last month saw the release of CentOS 6. The move from 5 to 6 establishes the foundation for this community-run enterprise Linux distribution for the next five years. CentOS brings a new kernel, new versions of key server components, and improved virtualization support. The new release was unexpectedly slow in arriving. In 2007, the CentOS [...]
READ MORE »Almost 25,000 staff from a group of thirteen Copenhagen hospitals will mirgate to using LibreOffice,the community maintained and developed fork of the OpenOffice.org office suite, over the next year. The plan, reported by OSOR.EU, is being embarked upon for “long term strategic reasons” and aims to save around 5.3 million euros in proprietary licence costs. The hospital [...]
READ MORE »According to a blog post by Chris Kenyon on the Canonical Blog, the Ubuntu Server 11.10 release will be simultaneously available for x86, x86-64 and ARM-based architectures. The base image of the releases will be the same across architectures with a common kernel baseline. The ARM architecture will also be part of the long-term support (LTS) [...]
READ MORE »The CentOS-5.6 Continuous Release ( CR ) repository is now available on mirror.centos.org. This repository contains rpms to be included in the next CentOS-5.x release. Because these include security and bugfix updates, we strongly recommend everyone using CentOS-5 install and update their system using this repository. Download and Install Installing the CR repository needs a manual step. You must [...]
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