Archive for the Category: Operating Systems

New Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Released

June 25, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Raspberry Pi Foundation has just released a new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/ Everything is bigger, faster & better. Specifications: A 1.5GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU (~3× performance) 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM Full-throughput Gigabit Ethernet Dual-band 802.11ac wireless networking Bluetooth 5.0 Two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports Dual […]

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Windows: Is the exe or DLL 32-bit or 64-bit?

June 7, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Every so often, I have a customer send me an email with a IBM MQ message like the following: Channel program ‘TEST.CHL’ ended because user exit ‘C:\Capitalware\MQAUSX\mqausx(SecExit)’ is not valid. Architecture of the exit library does not match the process’s architecture which is ’64’ bit. MQAUSX is just an example, as it could happen with […]

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Released

May 13, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Red Hat has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/07/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-now-generally-available/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM Z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64. All […]

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Fedora 30 Released

April 30, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Fedora Project has just released Fedora 30. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-30/ Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora is the upstream source of the commercial Red Hat […]

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Ubuntu 19.04 Released

April 18, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Canonical has just released Ubuntu v19.04. http://releases.ubuntu.com/19.04/ Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world. Ubuntu does everything you need it to. It’ll work with your existing PC files, printers, cameras and MP3 players. And it comes with thousands of free apps. Regards, […]

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Oh Hardware, how I hate thee!

March 25, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Well, there went 2 days of my life I won’t get back. 🙂 About 2 weeks ago, when I booted up my SLES 64-bit Linux server, it complained about issues with the hard drive. So, I ran “fsck” to fix the file system issues. There was only a couple of problems then everything was fine. […]

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FreeBSD v12.0 Released

December 12, 2018 Roger Lacroix

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v12.0. https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/announce.html FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive […]

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released

October 31, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Red Hat has just released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/7.6_release_notes/ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM Z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64. All […]

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Fedora 29 Released

October 31, 2018 Roger Lacroix

Fedora Project has just released Fedora 29. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/ Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora is the upstream source of the commercial Red Hat […]

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IBM announced plans to buy Red Hat

October 29, 2018 Roger Lacroix

This is interesting. IBM announced it will buy Red Hat for $34 Billion. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/ibm-buys-red-hat-with-eye-on-cloud-dominance/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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