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CentOS 5.1 Minimal VPS Install Guide

03.29.08 - 01:00am

I’m working on a project that is deploying on CentOS 5.1, and I found it not entirely obvious how to install a really stripped down server, as a starting point for a lean and mean, hardened production server. Since I’m doing work on this at home on VMWare, and it’s being deployed on a VPS […]

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Upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” on Xen

02.12.08 - 05:02pm

I have a VPS hosted at RimuHosting.com. I waited a while (3 months) for bugs to be squashed before upgrading it to Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (”Gutsy Gibbon”). There was one new issue.
BTW, my non-Rimu home server was the first thing I updated. Notes are here.
The only Xen wrinkle is that you need the libc6-xen package. […]

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Looking forward to LinuxWorld Expo SF 2007

07.27.07 - 08:58pm

Last year I was doing mobile development and there was interesting Linux-as-smartphone-OS stuff going on. Now I’m doing Ruby on Rails development and there’s interesting server grid stuff going on. Here’s what I’m looking forward to finding out more about (all of these are things I’ve been watching or directly researching already):

Category: zfs, gfs, vmware, raid, oracle, nfs, xen, ruby, servers, tools, databases, postgresql, ruby on rails, Linux | Tags: | 1 Comment »