Category: Linux

Linux

User-Mode Linux: SKAS0 poorly documented

It's unfortunate that SKAS0 mode is poorly documented on the User-Mode Linux (UML) web site. For example, this page about SKAS doesn't mention it. It is explained in Jeff Dike's UML book though. I wish they would update the UML...

DebianLinuxRHELUbuntu

Installing NX Server Free Edition: Workaround for .ssh/config permissions error

In the past 24 hours, I installed NX Free Edition on two Linux machines - one RHEL 4 and one Ubuntu and on both, the installation failed with this message in /usr/NX/var/log/install: NX> 700 WARNING: Error when trying to connect...

LinuxRHEL

Doing RHELatively better

Well, I got courier-imap working last night so I can read mail and today (though now I want to switch to Cyrus) I set up apt-rpm to work with rpmforge and now I'm working on getting yum working, since that seems to be the...

LinuxRHEL

Courier IMAP working on RHEL

Well, after a bit of frustration, I finally got the courier-imap package installed on RHEL and I had the IMAP server running, but I wasn't able to successfully authenticate with it. Eventually, I realized that I had forgotten to...

LinuxRHEL

Struggling with RHEL

At work, I just converted my FreeBSD 4.11 box to RHEL 4.0U3. It's been quite a pain as I used my FreeBSD box as an IMAP server, using courier-imap, and now I have to build courier-imap for RHEL, as it doesn't seem to be supported...

GeneralLinux

Installing OS/2 Warp 4 on Linux with VMware Player

I'm in a nostalgic mood lately, what with all the Atari stuff and now this. I never got the OS/2 Warp 4 install to work in QEMU, but I'm most of the way through it in VMware Player, albeit very, very, very slowly. Here's a few...

LinuxMacUbuntu

Ubuntu 6.10 on my PowerBook

My PowerBook has been continually crashing in OS X. As a last ditch attempt at salvaging it (or proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hardware is bad), I'm running the PowerPC version of Ubuntu on it....