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Kaspersky Rescue Disk

I wouldn’t have bothered trying out Kaspersky Rescue Disk if it wasn’t for a friend who asked me to help him troubleshoot his Windows machine which got infected by a virus. I was surprised to find that this rescue disk is in fact a Linux image which includes the well-known Kaspersky AntiVirus that can be […]

CentOS 6.4 released

Shortly after the release of RHEL 6.4, the community supported clone was announced today. CentOS-6.4 is based on the upstream release EL 6.4 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with (CentOS 6.4 Release Announcement). Being a clone (or […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 released

Red Hat announced the release of the next minor update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL 6.4. “Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced general availability of the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. It has been optimized for […]

New recovery OS updates

Yesterday, August 3rd, two Linux recovery operating systems received minor updates: my favorite, RIPLinuX (10.7) and another OS which I wrote about a while ago, Parted Magic (5.2). The changelog files show these new releases include bug fixes, minor enhancements and updated versions for the main packages (e.g. partitioning tools). Changelog for RIP LinuX: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/Changelog […]