the birdhouse in my soul

Your Linux runs on a VMware VM, but which ESX version is it ? You can see for yourself (as already explained in an earlier post on this blog). Run "dmidecode" and look at lines 10, 11 and 12. The list has been updated with current info: ESX 2.5 - BIOS Release Date: 04/21/2004 - Address 0xE8480 - Size 97152 bytes ESX 3.0 - BIOS Release Date: 04/17/2006 - Address 0xE7C70 - Size 99216 bytes ESX 3.5 - BIOS Release Date: 01/30/2008 - Address 0xE7910 - Size 100080 bytes ESX 4 - BIOS Release Date: 08/15/2008 - Address 0xEA6C0 - Size 88384 bytes ESX 4U1 - BIOS Release Date: 09/22/2009 - Address 0xEA550 - Size 88752 bytes

ICT website Computable runs a series of articles on Linux. The first article focuses on "hidden costs when migrating to Linux". In my experience, any project has hidden costs, and certainly so if preparation hasn't been done thoroughly, and with the necessary experience and know-how. There's plenty of experience available from various consultancy providers, use it ! PS don't forget to read the comments below the article as well.

Red Hat announced in december 2009 that RHEL support for Intel Itanium was being dropped. On april 2nd, Microsoft announced that Windows 2008 R2 was going to be the last Windows version to support the Itanium platform. A chronicle of a death foretold...