Christmas

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“Merry Christmas to all of you.”

Its meanings and variations are:

As “Merry Christmas”, the traditionally used greeting for Americans, composed of merry (jolly, happy) and Christmas (Old English: Cristes mÃ¦sse, for Christ’s Mass).
As “Merry Xmas”, usually used to avoid the length of “Merry Christmas“, with the “X” (sometimes controversially) replacing “Christ”. (see Xmas)
As “Happy Christmas”, an equivalent that is commonly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as “Merry Christmas”.
As “Feliz Navidad”, which is the Spanish language equivalent of “Happy Christmas“, but is frequently used in English context. The phrase “Felices Fiestas”, the Spanish language counterpart of “Happy Holidays” has also been used in some Spanish speaking communities.

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Dec

2

CentOS 5.1 is out

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Finally it is out and until Monday It should be synced to all mirrors with iso’s available for download.

Release notes

If you do not have fast connection you can buy it on CD ot DVD from our store

My Experience

After 450M download (186 packages) here are first problems:

In my setup sysreport package (from rpmforge) conflicted so I just removed it and installation went OK. Later I saw it was replaced by sos package.

New kernel welcomed me with new message:

“Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range”

To be honest I’ve seen the same message in RHEL 5.1 so I expected it.

Next thing was that redhat-release was still with version 5?

Will wait for day or two before bringing this as bug (it is possible that the repo was no fully synced)

No other problems for now….

After browsing mirrors I was surprised that finally there is netinstall CD.

UPDATE:

“Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range” is harmless message

Nov

13

Give One Get One

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Give One Get One program is active for citizens of USA and CANADA.

Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. During this time, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution.

I think that OLPCÂ project does not need introduction, but in case you hear it for first time click here for more information.