The latest version of the Bash shell was recently released. Version 4.0. Bash is pretty much the default shell is most Linux distributions, and seems to be preferred by most Sys-Amins on other flavors of UNIX as well.
I just downloaded and compiled the source on my Ubuntu 8.10 workstation as I didn’t see it in [...]
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Bash Shell Version 4.0 released
February 23, 2009 – 6:39 pm
350,000+ Virtual Desktop Instalation in Brazil
February 20, 2009 – 9:26 am
eWeek writes that Brazil now has the largest single desktop virtualization and Linux deployment. Over 350,000 workstations in schools.
Personally, I think getting only 10 virtual workstations to a single server is pretty week. Memory is cheap, and I doubt the CPU requirements are going to be all that demanding. I’d probably pushing to get at [...]
HP Certification for Ubuntu
February 18, 2009 – 4:49 pm
According to Canonical, plans are in the works to get Ubuntu fully certified on HP hardware.
I’ve always been a fan of Hewlett-Packard and have used their Intel, PA-RISC, Alpha, and Itanium servers forever running UNIX and Linux. On the Intel side, this has been primarily SUSE and RedHat Enterprise Linux due to official vendor support.
Working [...]