The Sys Admin

I upgraded my Kubuntu desktop to v 9.10 with no major issues however the upgrade did break my VMWare Workstation installation. I found a post called Vmware Workstation 6.5.3 on Unbuntu Karmic 9.10 on the aldeby.org/blog that fixed my problem. They outlined what to do when the VMWare installation hangs and it worked for me. [...]

After a couple different hardware problems at work, I replaced my kubuntu desktop with a new Dell Optiplex GX755. This new PC has 4gig of ram and a 250gig hard drive. A clean install of Kubuntu went down nicely and I also installed the Gnome desktop to pull in many of the Gnome tools.
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I wanted to share with you a great interview that I just listened to on Floss Weekly with Leo Laporte, Randal Schwartz and Jono Bacon.  Jono is the Community Manager for Ubuntu who was referred to by  Leo Laporte as a “Rock Star”.
Leo and Randal have many great Linux guests, however Jono was one of [...]

Here is a great Linux Admin blog with plenty of content for the both the beginner and the advanced Linux Admin. The name of the blog is nixCraft and it has been in my RSS reader for a while, and I wanted to share with you a couple of the scripts and links that I [...]

If you like to watch technical video’s in the Linux – Unix space, then you should check out this link from the recent RedHat Summit in Boston. There are a number of videos from Redhat President Jim Whitehurst, along with others from RedHat and IBM that are worth checking out.
I considered going, however I was [...]

I prefer Ubuntu over RedHat for day to day functionality and have Gusty Gibbon running in a VM on my laptop. Here is an older video of Mark Shuttleworth the creator of Ubuntu.