The Linux Juggernaut

Recently I attended one presentation from Redhat people on RHEL6 features. Some of the mesmerizing features as below.

• 85% more packages(Applications/softwares/tools) then RHEL5
• RHEL6 supports up to 4096 CPU’s
• RAM supported by RHEL6 is up to16TB.
• File system up to 100TB with EXT4 file-system.
• Very much optimized to support many hardware
• Can control 90000 jobs/min(I believe it’s too good I’m loving it.)
• SELinux sand-boxing for more SELinux control.
• KVM for virtualization.

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1) User login name: This field gives details for user-login

2) Encrypted password: The password is in encryption form8) No of days from Jan 1, 1970 the account was disabled: and its MD5 encrypted form. This field may contain following things

• !! or ! indicates account is present

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Update:Today 07-22-2011 Linux Kernel 3.0 is released. Get the source code here

Recently Linus Torvalds announced he is going to release kernel 3.0 instead of kernel 2.6.40. My career started with 2.6 version kernel and 2.x.x is there in the market for almost 15 years(2.0 is released on 9 June 1996) for now. here is the 2.x.x kernels. Some of noted kernels are as below.

• Version 2 of Linux, released on 9

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01 Jan 1970 is epoch or Unix time or posix time start date, its similar to Before Christ(BC) and After Death(AD). This is the time elapsed from Midnight Jan 01 1970 in UTC time when Unix I is first invented.  The Unix time is zero at this time and it start ticking from that time to till date in seconds. So our Linux machines too kept this as standard time for them. Present Unix time … Continue Reading

The linux password file location is in /etc. The password file has all the information you need to know about a user such as his username, UID, GID etc. There is one saying… if a beginner in Linux is able to create an entry in passwd file and create a user without using useradd command, he can do anything he wants on a Linux box to carry out something. There are total 7 fields in … Continue Reading

I am happy to announce one more update. We recreated new logo to our site “www.linuxnix.com” the above logo is our brand from here after. you will see this every where from now on www.linuxnix.com. This is just a TLJ tilted bit left side. The logo indicates just “The Linux Juggernaut“. Please feel free to comment on this.. For your reference here is the previous logo which we used.

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