After running RPM Fusion’s MirrorManager instance for many years on Fedora I moved it to a CentOS 6.4 VM. This was necessary because the MirrorManager installation was really ancient and still running from a modified git checkout I did many years ago. I expected that the biggest obstacle in this upgrade and move would be […]

After having upgraded our mirror server from Fedora 17 to Fedora 19 two weeks ago I was curious to try out bcache. Knowing how important filesystem caching for a file server like ours is we always tried to have as much memory as “possible”. The current system has 128GB of memory and at least 90% […]

Mainly using Fedora, I am accustomed that old kernel images are automatically uninstalled after a certain number of kernel images have been installed using yum. The default is to have three kernel images installed and so far this has always worked. I am also maintaining a large number of Ubuntu VMs and every now and […]

Updated to Fedora 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-08-07, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).