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Reading Time: 4 minutesIPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is a widely used protocol for network communication and is a core component of the TCP/IP stack. But it has some limits, one is the limit in terms of available addresses, expecially if we are talking about public IP. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was design to resolve all the limitation of IPv4. IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor to IPv4 providing the following benefits:

Reading Time: 3 minutesDebian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), not available on RedHat like distributions… in-place upgrade are still possible, but maybe much more tricky and sometimes not supported at all. For Rocky Linux in-place upgrades from one major version to the next aren’t supported (see https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/9_0/) at all and there is a good reason… if somethings goes wrong you cannot revert the operation. There are also other good reasons, like that the new version may require more resources (for example, disk space).

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream development platform for upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. That mean that will be no more alligned to the production version of Red Hat Enterprise. As a result, CentOS Linux 7 has reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024.  One of the possible CentOS Linux alternative can be Rocky Linux.

Reading Time: 2 minutesLinus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.10, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes. For a complete list see this post and this post.

Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: this article has been updated by Linux versions supported by Veeam Backup & Replication (December 2024). Veeam Backup & Replication has several roles and for some of them you can use a Linux OS to implement specific roles. Considering that CentOS Linux 7 will reach end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024 will be really important know which versions and which distributions are supported.

Reading Time: 3 minutesCentOS Linux was a freely available, community-supported Linux distribution that was developed, distributed, and maintained by the CentOS Project community contributors. It was derived based from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and released in alignment with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux production release cycle. For this reason was a great alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Note that CentOS Linux is not a Red Hat product and does not have Red Hat support. But in 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesOmnissa Horizon require an exteral database server to store the different events. The event database stores information about VMware Horizon 8 events as records in a database rather than in a log file. The different connection servers store some information, but if you want to see all the historical events from the Horizon management interface you need to configure an external event database.

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