On a personal note, I just need to say “Thank you” to Baldy for a great week! Our first face to face meeting couldn’t have gone better! We had an amazing week and it was over much too quickly. I’m sure I speak for the entire town, when I say, “None of us will ever be the same!!”

We really MUST do that again soon, I think it’s my turn to head down south.

~LC

Canadians create the best Clusters. That’s what a group of students from the University of Alberta demonstrated by winning the prestigious Cluster Challenge at Supercomputing 07 in Reno, NV.

Source: It Business Canada

~LC

Fedora’s Pirut is a useful tool for basic software installation and package searches. However, if you really want to take control of package management, you need to get back to basics with yum. Just as, on Debian systems, dpkg is the back end underlying apt-get and graphical tools such as Synaptic, so on RPM systems, yum is the hidden power behind Pirut and the Pup updater. Not only does yum have more options than Pirut, but you can enhance it with additional plugins and utilities, many of which work only with yum.

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Supercharging package management with yum plugins and utilities