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LinuxLinux is a Unix-like and POSIX-compliant computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel an operating system kernel.
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Last week I installed the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution for the first time and unlike Fedora it felt smoother than a breeze.
The installation GUI is polished as an Enterprise grade toolkit. The general installation procedures were trivial but when a step regarding the Red Hat Subscription Management this needed to be skipped.
There was a problem in the partition table of the windows laptop and the vmware provided had a missing lua script, so virtualbox was chosen...
I always have a knack for testing and deploying Linux/BSD distros on my Big Black Box.
But somewhere last week I pulled in the latest kernel, configured and compiled in less than an hour.
Some hours later when I remembered to reboot , to my distraught I realised that I managed to disfigure my lilo.conf file and bricked totally my slackware install.
Most of my time was lost into finding a good ide cable for my old 500GB hard disk and when I found one...
was well covered by great topics on Linux and BSD and we have had a good and interactive audience.
I felt that there was not enough awareness of FOSS, UNIX, OpenHardware here in Mauritius and the impact they have on our everyday life.
Secondly when...
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