Linux System Admins Blog

Fedora release 12 became available to the public November 17, 2009. New features are plentiful and many are centred around KVM virtualization.
If you are like me and still running Fedora 10 or 11 and do not wish to wait till a yum based update is pushed out you can kick off your adventure into Fedora [...]

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I thought that at least 10% of our readers would appreciate this information – or at least be already aware of it.  For a more details and a full story – you can check out the apple.com investors section or the WSJ article.
Why 10%?  According to our analytics here is our visitors operating system breakdown [...]

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TrueCrypt is an open source encryption application, it has an ability to create hidden encrypted containers and file systems/volumes, it is portable and cross platform compatible. It allows to use cascading cyphers and encrypts/decrypts files on the fly. Be sure to read the FAQ and documentation before fully committing your files to TrueCrypt.
- install via [...]

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For those of us who use Linux as a desktop replacement for Windows would find it nice to be able to run the ASDM client natively. If you haven’t upgraded your ASA/PIX to the latest ASDM you should do so. The steps are described here.

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After our ASA units were updated to the latest version of ASDM my Java client would no longer connect to ASDM. An upgrade to the latest version of Java was in order. Since fedora yum repository does not yet offer the latest version of Java I downloaded the latest rpm variant of JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
The [...]

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Trying to figure out how to put your second monitor and dual port graphics card to good use in FC9? How about creating a virtual desktop that will span the second monitor. Resist the urge to edit xorg.conf and think about the layout or position the second monitor will take. I like to have my [...]

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