Archive > January 2008

Put some debian in your mouth: 24 hours of Ubuntu vs Fedora

I had forgotten how nice apt was in relation to yum. I mean yum is great, I could never build a package manager like rpm; let alone a utility as versatile and helpful as what yum is. I may have the capacity to build something that sucks right around the level of up2date 0.6.  I [...]

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Remember to look into latencytop

It seems like a quick way to diagnose system performance problems. Link.

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I brought another server out of retirement.

I brought the old mythtv backend up with some updates. I managed to upgrade the thing from fedora core 7 to fedora 8 with the procedure I outlined here. I just had to modify the yum repos to point to the new fedora 8 repo. I bought a bookcase, an ikea made vesa mount, and [...]

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Remember to use iperf

To measure bandwidth between two points. Link.

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