Today RedHat released version 5.2 of RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. They are keeping they schedule of versions, in my humble opinion, it's much better than the ubuntu approach. Also, last week, we saw the birth of Fedora Core 9, aka Sulphur.

Time to get some ISOs

Morning!

Following yesterday's announcement on a Debian vulnerability in openssl, everybody is encouraged to follow this instructions in order to ensure that all the keys generated by openssl are replaced by new, non-buggy ones:

http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys

It’s sad that after 3 months without an article in my techie blog, the first thing to appear it’s to announce that finally Microsoft has proven that the developed world is not ruled by R+D, or by logic. It’s only ruled by Money.

Yesterday, Microsoft anounced that the OOXML format (the propietary, pseudo-ECMA standard format of Office2007) has passed the ISO approval.

Curiously enough, they posted that info BEFORE the ISO. Quite suspicious, don’t you think?

So now, it’s possible for me to certify my company with ISO standards at 100% and then have interoperability problem with another company that has also got certified by ISO standards at 100%, just because Microsoft and his friends have been able to buy the organization which is in charge of creating standards for the Industry to avoid a situation like the one they just created.

I feel sad.

Well, I'm still not done with the hp-ux and solaris (yay, I got a solaris box to try out) parts of the LVM series part II, meanwhile I'ld like to share some thoughts about Xen.

For those who doesn't know what it is, Xen it's a paravirtualization technology, designed to create, manage and mantain virtual machines running on a real server. It has a really good performance (when running paravirtualized) and as everything free (as in freedom) is not as easy to use from scratch as it's propietary competitor ( namely VMWare)