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Of Epochs, Versions & Releases - 30 January 2012
Packages names in various operating systems and distributions can often seem to be an arbitrarily complex sequence of digits, letters and symbols.
Installing PostgreSQL, for example, and ending up with “postgresql-client-8.3.16_2,1″, can lead to some head scratching.
Package maintainers have a number of extra concerns, and that has led to package version numbers consisting of three components: Version, Release and Epoch.
Here’s how it all works…
November Policy Update - 20 November 2011
The November policy update introduces support for patch checking on Debian & Ubuntu.
Talking To Yourself - 15 November 2011
ping 127.0.0.1
A simple enough method to ensure your network stack hasn’t suffered some sort of catastrophic internal failure, and something, I’m sure, we’ve all done enough times that muscle memory has taken over and we no longer think about it.
So, let’s try and liven up poor old, oft forgotten, localhost and give it a new name…
But which one, when there are so many?
SureCheck 1.10 Released - 9 October 2011
Solaris 11, extended Windows checks, improvements to UNIX remote collection & direct scanning and a minor bug fix to PDF exported reports…


