Netinstalling CentOS using Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet (aka HOWTO modify Red Hat based iso's bootkernel)

I needed to install CentOS 5.3 on a workstation with an "Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter", the driver for this kind of adapter (atl1e) was introduced in the version 2.6.26 of the kernel but CentOS 5.3 uses the 2.6.18 one. ElRepo provides an rpm with the atl1e.ko module backported for using with the … Continue reading Netinstalling CentOS using Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet (aka HOWTO modify Red Hat based iso's bootkernel)

Fedora 11 Release Party Napoli

When and Where Thursday, June 18 11:30 am onwards Location: University of Naples "Parthenope" - Faculty of Science and Technlogies, Centro Direzionale di Napoli Isola C4 Responsible Ambassadors Giuseppe Coviello Attendees Gianluca Varisco ... add yourself here! ... Program 11.30: "Welcomes to the conference" by Prof. Giulio Giunta 11.50: "Fedora 11, New Features" by Gianluca … Continue reading Fedora 11 Release Party Napoli

Using ZFS for home partition on Fedora

ZFS is a great filesystem: it’s based on a copy-on-write transactional model, it supports dynamic striping of data across all devices, it supports a transparent compression and many more features, but the more interesting feature to me is the support for snapshot and clones. I feel interesting snapshots and clones primarily for backups: using a … Continue reading Using ZFS for home partition on Fedora

CRUX PPC 2.4 Released!

The long waited CRUX PPC version 2.4 multilib is now available. Supports Apple 32bit “NewWorld” G3, G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER 185 and IBM Chrp 32bit. To increase CRUX PPC usability and enjoyability, starting from 2.4 we do provide ports and pre-compiled for the … Continue reading CRUX PPC 2.4 Released!