Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual page 407

• Description: Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
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microcode_ctl-1.17-1.48.el5 - microcode_ctl-1.17-1.50.el5
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Tool to update x86/x86-64 CPU microcode.
• Description: microcode_ctl - updates the microcode on Intel x86/x86-64 CPU's
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mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54 - mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-61
• Group: System Environment/Base
• Summary: Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules.
• Description: Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) images. These
ramdisk images are often used to preload the block device modules (SCSI or RAID) needed to
access the root filesystem. In other words, generic kernels can be built without drivers for any
SCSI adapters which load the SCSI driver as a module. Since the kernel needs to read those
modules, but in this case it isn't able to address the SCSI adapter, an initial ramdisk is used. The
initial ramdisk is loaded by the operating system loader (normally LILO) and is available to the
kernel as soon as the ramdisk is loaded. The ramdisk image loads the proper SCSI adapter and
allows the kernel to mount the root filesystem. The mkinitrd program creates such a ramdisk
using information found in the /etc/modules.conf file.
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