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  • Fixing the Heartbleed vulnerability on CentOS

    Fixing the Heartbleed vulnerability on CentOS

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    While the popular media have jumped on the Heartbleed Bug as if the sky were falling causing mass panic, it is actually quick and easy to fix for us CentOS users. Red Hat released a patched version of OpenSSL on 8th April and it has already filtered down to the CentOS updates repository, so all…

  • Installing CentOS packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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    At the weekend I got into a discussion with Andy Stanford-Clark and Richard Appleby on Twitter troubleshooting basic application installation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (like Pidgin). Not finding a solution later began to plague me, I grabbed a copy of RHEL and installed it on a Virtual Machine to solve the problem. If you’re interested in the history of the Red…