Can you tar and untar an entire root filesystem and expect it to work? Would the tarring process clobber device files and named pipes and whatnot? I'm basically trying to "image" a system by tarring / ...

In the first part of this series I looked at the TinyLinux project, a set of patches aimed at helping developers reduce both the size of their kernel images and the amount of memory they use at ...

I have been tasked with getting our developers to use .rpm packages to deploy their web applications to our RHEL 5 and 6 jboss servers. Currently we drop in .ear files manually, whenever the devs want ...