Can you tar and untar an entire root filesystem and expect it to work? Would the tarring process clobber device files and named pipes and whatnot? I'm basically trying to "image" a system by tarring / ...

Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2026-64600 exposes an estimated 16.4 million RHEL and enterprise Linux systems to silent root takeover via a nine-year-old XFS filesystem race condition. SELinux, ...

There was a time when, to use a computer, you merely turned it on and were greeted by a command prompt. Nowadays, most operating systems offer a security model with multiple users. Typically, the ...

The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX is the latest in its line of tablets that run a forked and heavily customized version of Android 4.2 which Amazon calls Fire OS 3.0 "Mojito." But if you want to get more out ...

I have been tasked with getting our developers to use .rpm packages to deploy their web applications to our RHEL 5 and 6 jboss servers. Currently we drop in .ear files manually, whenever the devs want ...