Tag: "Red Hat"

Fedora 16 now being served, with large side order of cloud

What happens when 24,000 geeks contribute to a single open source project? Fedora 16, that’s what. The watery ‘Verne’ update is based on Linux kernel 3.1.0 and comes with a bunch of enterprise-friendly improvements, including better support for cloud-based processing and storage systems, more flexible desktop virtualization using SPICE USB, and version 3.2 of the Gnome desktop, which — aside from being pretty — offers greater scope for storing and managing user accounts online. There’s some fun stuff too, including Firefox 7.0.1, a Rhythmbox app for music, and Shotwell for photo management. If any of this might make your life easier or more fulfilling, then explore the PR after the break and then head to the source link to download.

Nov 09, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

Arnal Dayaratna: Red Hat’s OpenShift Becomes First PaaS to Support Java EE 6

Red Hat announced that its OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering now supports Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) by means of its JBoss Application Server 7 on Wednesday. OpenShift’s support of Java EE 6 makes it the first PaaS development environment to support Java EE 6, differentiating it from competitors such as Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and VMware Cloud Foundry. OpenShift’s support of Java EE 6 provides developers with access to the latest enhancements in Java technology and facilitates the migration of Java based applications to the cloud. Java EE 6 includes “Context and Dependency Injection (CDI), a standards-based, modern programming framework that makes it easier for developers to build dynamic applications and picks up where some proprietary frameworks left off.”

Aug 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

The rationale for Ceylon, Red Hat’s new programming language



Red Hat engineer Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, is developing a new programming language for enterprise software development. His team at Red Hat has apparently been working on the grammar in secrecy for two years and is finally opening it up for scrutiny.

Apr 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

The rationale for Ceylon, Red Hat’s new programming language



Red Hat engineer Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, is developing a new programming language for enterprise software development. His team at Red Hat has apparently been working on the grammar in secrecy for two years and is finally opening it up for scrutiny.

Apr 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post

How To Set Up A Secure Chrooted Jail With RSSH

In this guide I will show you how to install and configure Restricted SSH (rssh) using the default port 22, create a chrooted jail for your users and how to properly secure it all afterwards.

This method is tried and tested as I originally wrote this for my own benefit when building servers at work.

There are 5 steps:

  1. Installing rssh
  2. Configuring rssh
  3. Building the chrooted jail
  4. Locking it all down
  5. Adding users with rssh over SCP and/or SFTP access to the jail.

Confirmed compatable with default installations of CentOS 5.2 and Redhat 5.2

During this guide the CentOS/Redhat default webroot of /var/www/html will be used.

Let’s get started!

May 31, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Installing Retrospect Client On Linux Servers

Retrospect is a popular backup solution used by many large organizations, similar in functionality to Semantec Backup Exec.
The main application is designed for Windows Server operating systems and includes clients for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris and Netware.

These instructions are written for CentOS 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (not tested on Fedora)

Mar 08, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post