I've got several VMs in a farm. 3 are running CentOS 7, were installed from ISO, and are running FreeIPA Server (they are replicating to each other). Two more VMs (I'll call them Alpha and Beta), are ...

It’s official: Google has released Android Oreo. After months of developer preview releases, the newest version of Google’s operating system is available in finished form for the Nexus 5X, 6P, Nexus ...

Windows Deployment Service (WDS) is a powerful tool that allows network-based installation of Windows OS to computers without needing physical media. This guide will walk us through installing and ...

Microsoft released a new tool designed to patch Windows 10 and Windows Server installation images with the latest Microsoft Defender updates to minimize the protection gap systems face until ...

For years now, folks have been using Rufus to bypass Windows 11's onerous installation requirements. Got a system without Secure Boot or a functional TPM? No problem! Some buzz was going around that ...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Mac OS X Server’s NetBoot process allows Macintosh machines to boot by using a server-based disk image instead of booting via a local disk. Part 1 also ...

Microsoft has released a new Defender anti-malware update package for Windows OS installation images, ie, for Windows Imaging Format (WIM) and VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) formats. The latest definitions ...

When I first started blogging about Linux, MEPIS was one of the first distributions that I wrote about. I always liked it, and enjoyed using it, so I was disappointed when it quietly died a few years ...