Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros
Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros
Mar 8, 2011, 18 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (646 reads)
(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)
[ Thanks to James Maguire for this link. ]
"Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are the most influential distributions that use the Red Hat Package Manager. Although their influence lags behind that of Debian and Ubuntu, it is still strong enough that Fedora remains consistently in the top three most downloaded distributions on Distrowatch, and is the ultimate source of 50 (15%) of the 323 active distributions listed."Fedora, the successor to Red Hat Linux and perhaps the most influential distribution prior to 2000, is consciously produced as the source for other distributions. In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months.
"The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot. Since Fedora installs with SE Linux for security, the result is a distribution well-suited to server installations."
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 5) - Architecture, infrastructure an
Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 5) - Architecture, infrastructure an
Mar 8, 2011, 17 :05 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (814 reads)
(Other stories by Thorsten Leemhuis)
"In certain situations, a small patch for 2.6.38 perceivably improves the response time of desktop environments. Transparent Huge Pages, on the other hand, simplify memory management, which is particularly relevant in terms of virtualisation and server software.
"On Tuesday last week, Linus Torvalds issued the seventh release candidate of Linux 2.6.38. Among other things, Torvalds mentioned a fix for a flaw in Btrfs that can potentially cause data loss in certain situations ? again, there was no indication of a final release date for 2.6.38.
"Nevertheless, the next version in the main development branch is approaching completion, and the Kernel Log will, therefore, gradually conclude its "Coming in 2.6.38" mini series; the penultimate part will discuss the advancements in terms of the kernel's architecture code, infrastructure and virtualisation. Part 1 and part 3 discussed the changes to the graphics hardware and network communication code; part 2 and part 4 revolved around file systems and storage. This week, the series will be concluded with an article on the kernel's audio, USB and video hardware drivers."
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Henry's Techno-Musings: "The Wit and Wisdom of Chairman John"
Henry's Techno-Musings: "The Wit and Wisdom of Chairman John"
Mar 8, 2011, 16 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (721 reads)
(Other stories by Henry Grebler)
"Here's the deal. Chairman John has bought two ELVISes from HP, one for us and one for our remote satellite site. Originally, the technology was developed by IBRIX, which has since been acquired by HP. In essence, it's a NAS.
"But there seems to have been a slip between the cup and the lip.
"As I understand it, it can export NFS; it can export CIFS. But it seems that it can't export both at the same time: there's some sort of locking problem. HP can't guarantee that there won't be corruption.
"Why am I using such vague terminology? Well, I have discovered in the last few months that some people can have a Microsoft effect on me. OK, one particular person. I've discussed this with my colleagues. They agree that whenever there's a meeting with Chairman John, a fog of stupidity envelopes the room, reducing all participants to the IQ of cattle."
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The Freedom Box gets off the ground
The Freedom Box gets off the ground
Mar 8, 2011, 19 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (496 reads)
(Other stories by Jake Edge)
"The Freedom Box is starting to roll, with a fundraising drive that met its goals in a few short days, along with a newly formed foundation to oversee its development. What started as an idea in a talk given by Eben Moglen just over a year ago has more recently gained a lot of momentum. What can we expect to see from this "personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy", and when can we expect to see it?
"The "when" question may have become somewhat clearer since the "Push the FreedomBox Foundation from 0 to 60 in 30 days" Kickstarter fundraising effort has clearly been a success. The fundraising drive was set up on February 17, with the goal of getting $60,000 in donations in 30 days, but it has exceeded that?and quickly. As of this writing, there are more than 650 supporters who have donated over $64,000 in just five or six days. Based on the Kickstarter appeal, reaching the goal (and quite possibly far surpassing it) should result in a software release in six months. With luck, that means we will see the first Freedom Box release in August or so.
"It should be noted that, perhaps a bit oddly, the project is called "Freedom Box", but the foundation is the "FreedomBox Foundation"."
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Easy Linux File-sharing With WebDav
Easy Linux File-sharing With WebDav
Easy Linux File-sharing With WebDav
Mar 8, 2011, 16 :05 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1250 reads)
(Other stories by Juliet Kemp)
"You don't need some big fancy expensive groupware suite for simple file sharing; just set up a good stout Linux server with WebDav and be done with it. No muss, no fuss.
"The WebDAV protocol allows you to store and share files via HTTP; effectively, where HTTP is usually read-only, WebDAV allows writing as well. As well as accessing documents, you can (with suitable permissions) edit and re-upload them. You can think of it as a networked file-system run over HTTP; or as a way of supporting long-distance collaboration on files. The protocol supports locking and versioning information, so once you've accessed the WebDAV folder (see below), you can edit files without risking overwriting other people's edits. These days there are more and more ways available to undertake online collaboration, but WebDAV is still a useful and straightforward way to share files, especially as it's supported by plenty of software at both server and client end.
"Unlike FTP, HTTP provides strong authentication and encryption, as well as caching and proxy support ? and because WebDAV works over HTTP, this means that WebDAV gets all of that for free. SSH would be another option, but SSH is a bit more limited in terms of moving files around, and certainly doesn't have the same sort of client support and tools available."
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Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal
Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Deal
Mar 8, 2011, 14 :05 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (1187 reads)
(Other stories by Dina Bass)
"Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms.
"Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its own budget for software research and development, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the final contract hasn?t yet been signed. The agreement runs for more than five years, the people said."
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The EFF Letter: Sony's subpoenas "impact the free speech interests of myriad third parties"
Mar 8, 2011, 17 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (576 reads)
(Other stories by Pamela Jones)
"Wired's David Kravetz has published the EFF letter [PDF] it sent to the judge in SCEA v. Hotz, and I have it for you as text.
"George Hotz's lawyers agreed to the subpoenas issuing, so long as the information gleaned is kept attorneys' eyes only, according to the letter [PDF] Sony sent the Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero, and the judge merely signed off on it. I don't see Hotz's lawyer signing the letter too, which I'd normally expect. Why he'd agree to such a broad reach is disturbing. EFF noticed, telling the judge that the subpoenas implicate free speech interests of third parties not involved in the litigation, but nobody else seems to care. EFF is most concerned about the subpoena to YouTube, but the one I find overbroad is the subpoena to the company that hosts his web site, as I'll show you. No one else is looking out for the third parties in this picture, so if I were one of the third parties and I knew it, I'd be on the phone to my lawyer or EFF super pronto, asking him if I could block.
"Let me show you what I mean about overbroad, looking at just one piece of what Sony demands that Hotz's web host supply:
"3. Documents reproducing all records of IP addresses that have accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and associated with the www.geohot.com website, including but not limited to the "geohot.com/jailbreak.zip" file, from January 1, 2009 to the present,"
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Create a Cheap and Effective Monitoring System with Ubuntu Linux and webcam_server
Create a Cheap and Effective Monitoring System with Ubuntu Linux and webcam_server
Mar 8, 2011, 14 :35 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1392 reads)
(Other stories by Jack Wallen)
"On a tight budget, but want to monitor your business, home, or maybe just your baby's room? Using Linux and the webcam_server project, you can set up a poor man's monitoring solution quickly and easily.
"Setting up a system to broadcast pics or video from a Webcam may sound like quite a challenge. Believe it or not, it's really fairly easy to get up and running. All you need is a Linux machine (In this case, Ubuntu), a Web server (Apache), a webcam, and a little tool called webcam_server. Once you are done, you can point that Webcam to your target and then view it from within a browser. If your machine housing the server is available to the outside world, you can share that link or view it from anywhere you have access to a Web browser, including your mobile device!
"Let's get this up and running."
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Canonical intelligently reinvents the scrollbar for Ubuntu
Canonical intelligently reinvents the scrollbar for Ubuntu
Mar 8, 2011, 13 :35 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (2518 reads)
(Other stories by Matthew Humphries)
[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]
"Graphical user interfaces on the PC are a pretty standard affair when it comes to interaction. They all have windows you can open, close, resize, and move around. There's minimize, maximize, and close buttons, toolbars, scrollbars, and menu systems. We all know how to use them and rely on them for navigation everyday."With the advent of mobile devices and touchscreens some of those interaction methods have had to be rethought due to screen size limitations and a lack of keyboard or mouse input. One of those interactions is page or window scrolling using a scrollbar. You simply don't need them on a touchscreen device as it is easier and quicker to touch and drag anywhere on the display instead.
"Such a lack of scrollbars gave the design team at Canonical an idea. Could they remove the permanent scrollbars at the edge of windows in Ubuntu to free up more space for content while still allowing them to work with a cursor? The answer was a definite yes, and the re-design is now being experimented with."
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Mar 7, 2011, 15 :34 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (744 reads)
(Other stories by Dave Courbanou)
"I’ve had an affinity for netbooks since they entered public consciousness sometime in late 2008. Despite the limitations of my Dell Mini 9, I loved it dearly. Now that Atom CPUs are getting more powerful, drives are getting smaller, and components are maturing, ZaReason has decided to pack together a good chunk of that new hardware into its new Teo Pro Netbook, and the company was kind enough to send me a review unit. Here are some first impressions …
"Check out the full tech specs of the Teo Pro here, but the unit packs 2GB of RAM and a 1.66 GHz Atom CPU. SSD options are available, but my unit came equipped with 160GB HDD."
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The Slur "Open Core": Toward More Diligent Analysis
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Mar 7, 2011, 14 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (674 reads)
(Other stories by Bradley Kuhn)
"I certainly deserve some of the blame, and for that I certainly apologize: the phrase “Open Core” has apparently become a slur word, used by those who wish to discredit the position of someone else without presenting facts. I've done my best when using the term to also give facts that backed up the claim, but even so, I finally abandoned the term back in November 2010, and I hope you will too.
"The story, from my point of view, began seventeen months ago, when I felt that “Open Core” was a definable term and that behavior was a dangerous practice. I gave it the clear definition that I felt reflected problematic behavior, as I wrote at the time:
"Like most buzzwords, Open Core has no real agreed-upon meaning. I'm using it to describe a business model whereby some middleware-ish system is released by a single, for-profit entity copyright holder, who requires copyright-assigned changes back to the company, and that company sells proprietary add-ons and applications that use the framework."
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5 Excellent Linux Media Servers for the Enterprise
Mar 7, 2011, 18 :34 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (141 reads)
(Other stories by Eric Geier)
"A good stout Linux media server has a home in the enterprise because it's a better tool than traditional file shares for storing, archiving, and sharing multimedia presentations.
"You can share your music, videos, and photos on your network via regular folder shares, but using a media server gives you additional functionality and lets you stream to more devices. A Linux media server has a home in the enterprise because it's a superior tool for storing, archiving, and sharing company multimedia presentations.
"Here are five different media servers that you can run on Linux machines:
"MediaTomb
"MediaTomb is an open source UPnP media server, implementing the UPnP MediaServer V 1.0 specification, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on x86, Alpha, ARM, MIPS, Sparc, and PowerPC with support for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X."
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"When one's computer becomes unstable, it's natural to think first of a particular app or the desktop. After that, one may tend to suspect the operating system. Finally one may find it turns out to be hardware at fault. This is what happened to me recently, and at the operating system phase, Debian became a last resort.
"At first I blamed Sabayon and tried Linux Mint. When Linux Mint seemed to also be crashy, I resorted to the newly released Debian 6.0. I thought if anything was going to be stable, it'd be Debian. Although I finally found and replaced faulty hardware, I've learned a bit about Debian on the desktop. I've used Debian on my X-less server for years, but never thought of it much as a desktop system. So, here is a summary of my Debian desktop adventure."
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FreeBSD and PC-BSD release new version
The FreeBSD project announced the release of version 8.2 and 7.4 on 24 February. Both bring many new features and bug fixes. FreeBSD can run on a variety of architectures, and is still regarded as one of the most stable and hardened systems available. The most user friendly derivative, PC-BSD, also saw a new release on the same day.
The FreeBSD Project publishes two versions of its popular BSD clone line. 8.2 and legacy 7.4 published at the same time with many of the same improvements. You have 2.32.1 GNOME and KDE of 4.5.5. asynchronous logging queue support has been improved, to variable-length messages is set to allow execution of flags for more flexibility. Sysctl has been improved to allow more current updates and large free range in memory management and several new virtual memory variable options. Other memory improvements were seen in the areas of detection and reallocation of shared memory blocks. Now supports GUID partition table and partition table and header checksum verification has been fixed. Number of disk and network improvements and bug fixes have been implemented at the kernel level, as well as in user-space applications. Many network and graphics driver improvements and additions have been implemented. Different filesystem support elements have been improved across the Board. The security fixes are a bzip2-integer overflow and multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. And, of course, all of your favorite applications have been updated as well as.
Updating existing installations is supported and FreeBSD comes in multiple install media formats. CD and DVD ISO images are frequently, but other methods such as such as network installed are also supported.
Not to exceed, PC-BSD published their latest and greatest on 24 February to. PC-BSD is sometimes known as the Ubuntu of * BSD. It embody many of the same elements as most Linux distributions. Nice and simple easy to use graphical installer, an attractive and useful desktop out-of-the-box, practical applications, and a graphical Software Manager.
Based on FreeBSD 8.2, many of the same improvements in your PC-BSD 8.2 are inherited. BC-BSD 8.2 features things like KDE 4.5.5, xorg 7.5 and nvidia driver 260.19.29. The standard installation with software such as GIMP, ImageMagick, digiKam comes in addition to a number of KDE apps. If you are installing, can an extra software including FireFox 3.6, 3.2.1 OpenOffice and VLC 1.1.5 select.
Download-PC-BSD 8.2 for 32-bit or 64-bit computers. See the release notes and ChangeLog for more details.
