Archive for July, 2008

Old Tech = Good Tech

Published
by
Albert
on July 30, 2008
in Docunext
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Sometimes knowing something works is a very good thing. If old technology sticks around, chances are it works, and just because there is something newer, faster, and bigger, doesn’t mean its a better choice.

I’m talking about stability, and Etch is turning out to be a really stable platform. Its about halfway through its life cycle, as I understand it, but Debian has just released a point upgrade to 2.6.24. That is so cool!

I’ve actually been compiling my own kernels for use with Etch, specifically with the OpenVZ 2.6.24 patches. So far, so good! I’ve only got it running on one machine, and it works fine so far.

Etch and a half Sources

Published
by
Albert
on July 29, 2008
in Debian and Docunext
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I had a hard time finding out how to do this, so I’m posting here for others:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch-proposed-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main

Cool:
etch-and-a-half.png

Uh-oh:
etch-and-a-half-error.png

NSD




Published
by
Albert
on July 27, 2008
in DNS
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I’m setting up NSD as a replacement for some of my MyDNS servers.

These links were helpful:
http://www.generic-nic.net/sheets/practical/nameserver-en

http://home.lfms.nl/20050815/nsd-on-freebsd/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_file

Etch and a Half

Published
by
Albert
on July 26, 2008
in Debian
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This is good news:

Stable Point Release: Etch 4.0r4 (aka etchnhalf)

I’d like to start keeping my production servers running stable software as long as possible, however the recent development in power saving have got me immediately dist-upgrading to lenny. Etch and a half provides a newer kernel, and the same stable packages. The SSL bug was also fixed, thank goodness.

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