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Hey there,

This post is for any Linux admin out there, who uses RedHat (or any similar distro, really - the differences are generally minor) and works in a shop outfitted with the latest and greatest hardware to “drive the network.” I’m not sure what that expression means, but I heard it in a meeting once and it seemed vaguely motivating It’s also the first post on using grub since our post on using grub to change the root password.

If you do use RedHat Linux and run it on hardware that’s new or “newer,” you probably have a couple of servers (or, possibly, even regular PC’s) running RedHat that don’t have those good old-fashioned PS/2 keyboards and mice (mouses ?? I’ll puzzle over that for my remaining years). You may even, in some instances, find yourself in a situation where you’re booting a server from a USB drive. You won’t see that too often (especially not in enterprise systems), but you’ll catch it here and there in development environments with bizarre quadruple-boot configurations. You may not, technically, support them, but (since you’re the sys admin) you support them

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