Archive of the day April 30, 2008

Small, space, advertising ...

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I'm doing a small campaign to promote the services of my company. I take this opportunity to get me here a little 'of advertising.

Under the guise of equant lurks a working group formed by two regular members and a varying number of employees who rotate from time to time depending on the project.

As stated in the picture, in the demo of the promo that I'm doing, our main services are as follows:

  • Professional websites
  • Corporate portals
  • Internet marketing
  • Consulting UNIX / Linux
  • Web application development and maintenance
  • Database management
  • Professional Handyman
  • Multimedia productions for the web
  • Professional hosting and housing

For more information you may contact me directly or send an info@equanta.it , thanx!

Ksplice: update the kernel without rebooting

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The project has a goal Ksplice more than ambitious: to integrate a Linux operating system layer that allows to apply security updates to the kernel without rebooting the system.

For those who are not familiar with UNIX-like systems, it must be said that a server restart (or even a PC) for each installation of the software is not a normal thing, believe me ... On some of my clients server reboot was performed over a years ago and that everything runs more smoothly, as it should be. There are rare situations in which, however, is required to restart the server and one of them is right regarding patching the kernel. Well, on the website of MIT 's long been a page that promises to eliminate the need for reboot in the event of substantial changes to the Linux kernel!

Systems engineers are testing Ksplice American University since 2005. The results are impressive: the software was able to automatically apply the 84% of the 50 major patches released during this time. Ksplice has been tested on different distributions both 32 and 64 bits from 2.6.8 until the very last kernel 2.6.25, those wishing more information can be found on the website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to this address:

http://web.mit.edu/ksplice/