We recently purchased a family iMac with a 27 display and 16GB of memory. The kids are loving it including the parents. Although we already have a mixture of laptops and PCs running Linux and Windoze this new device requires taking a number to use it. In regards to system administration tasks, I created accounts   Read More …

I recently installed CentOS 6 Minimal distribution on my old Dell desktop. CentOS Minimal only weighs in at 396MB and is a basic installation. It’s  so basic that no X windowing and networking is not configured. However, SELlnux is included and in Enforcing mode…cool! This system is dedicated to automated notifications via scripting. Actually, I’ll   Read More …