Archive for the Category: Linux

Its All Fun & Games Until Your Message Is Empty!

May 22, 2019 Roger Lacroix

I’ve collected a bunch of JSON sample files from the internet for testing with MQ Visual Edit. It is always good to have a variety of samples when testing features of a program rather than making up a couple of your own. I was doing some testing with MQ Visual Edit and the JSON samples […]

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 8.0.0.12 Released

May 16, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 8.0.0.12 for IBM MQ https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10884142 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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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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SQLite v3.28.0 Released

April 17, 2019 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.28.0. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.1.0.2 Released

April 10, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.1.0.2 for IBM MQ V9.1 LTS: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10879379 and for IBM i: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10880085 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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IBM MQ Fix Pack 9.0.0.6 Released

March 28, 2019 Roger Lacroix

IBM has just released Fix Pack 9.0.0.6 for IBM MQ V9.0 LTS https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10876306 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Swift 5 Released

March 26, 2019 Roger Lacroix

Ted Kremenek of Apple has announced release of Swift 5: https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/ Swift 5 is a major milestone in the evolution of the language. Thanks to ABI stability, the Swift runtime is now included in current and future versions of Apple’s platform operating systems: macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. Swift 5 also introduces new capabilities that […]

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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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