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Simplified VDI with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops

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The Red Hat VDI solution has come a long way … client-side rendering and media off-load, built right on top of the RHEV stack (no separate infrastructure!), user portal is part of the package (no additional purchase!).

Comparisons between VMWare View and XenDesktop show roughly functionality/feature parity, but Red Hat VDI appears *much* less expensive, and can provide both Windows and Linux virtual desktops.

http://www.redhat.com/summit/sessions/index.html#5

And checkout the Red Hat TCO/ROI comparison tool:

https://roianalyst.alinean.com/ent_02/AutoLogin.do?d=482903301639024770

However – a critical feature is still missing.  While Red Hat VDI looks like a great replacement for desktops, there is no iPad client yet.  For many, this may be the killer.  It is on the near-future roadmap though!

Adopt the cloud, kill your IT career

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http://www.infoworld.com/print/195144

…You might be eager to relinquish responsibility of a cranky infrastructure component and push the headaches to a cloud vendor, but in reality you aren’t doing that at all. Instead, you’re adding another avenue for the blame to follow. The end result of a catastrophic failure or data loss event is exactly the same whether you own the service or contract it out. The difference is you can’t do anything about it directly. You jump out of the plane and hope that whoever packed your parachute knew what he or she was doing….

Using the UITS SSH Gateway

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Adding the following to your ~/.ssh/config will cause all SSH access to servers named *.uits.uconn.edu to hop through ssh.uits.uconn.edu, authenticating as your NetID.  Note that if you have kinit’d as <NETID>/admin, or if you have copied your public SSH key to ssh.uits.uconn.edu and are using ssh-agent, this will be transparent.

Host ssh.uits.uconn.edu
    ProxyCommand none

Host *.uits.uconn.edu
    ProxyCommand ssh -A <NETID>@ssh.uits.uconn.edu exec nc %h %p

Cross-posting …

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Took me 15 minutes of searching and trying, but I eventually figured out how to get all posts tagged “linux” from my personal blog to be cross-posted here.

Check out the FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress — simply supply the remote RSS URL, and FeedWordPress will import posts directly into your WordPress site.

 

A new Linux Admin is born!

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Amber Grace Smith

Amber Grace Smith was born at 12:31 on October 4 2011, weighing 7 lbs 11 oz and measuring 20 in. Mother and baby are doing great and are returning home today.

Amber has spent her first few days reviewing the mod_auth_cas source code, and hopes to work on the Linux Kernel crypto modules in the near future.

Welcome to the world, Amber!