Article Roundup
Jul 28th, 2006 by Doug
In honor of Sysadmin
Appreciation Day (July 28th),
the classic
song and
some humor.
Very useful site with backported Debian installer images. They mainly contain updated kernels, meaning they support lots of newer hardware, including Dell’s latest power-edge servers.
SearchSecurity.com gives us an analysis of security patch times for various Linux distros. The fastest patchers? Ubuntu, Fedora and RHEL, with Debian a close fourth.
Yet another high-profile switch from Mac to Ubuntu Linux. This is interesting:
Stifflog interviews some well-known programmers.
What the World-Wide-Web looked like in 1996, when the Internet Archive started archiving web pages. I’d forgotten how bad some of these sites looked.
Very useful site with backported Debian installer images. They mainly contain updated kernels, meaning they support lots of newer hardware, including Dell’s latest power-edge servers.
SearchSecurity.com gives us an analysis of security patch times for various Linux distros. The fastest patchers? Ubuntu, Fedora and RHEL, with Debian a close fourth.
Yet another high-profile switch from Mac to Ubuntu Linux. This is interesting:
It has been my experience that the Mac “community” (ie, the most vocal and active of the Macintosh enthusiast and power users) tend to be incredibly negative and expect much more than they deserve.
Stifflog interviews some well-known programmers.
What the World-Wide-Web looked like in 1996, when the Internet Archive started archiving web pages. I’d forgotten how bad some of these sites looked.
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