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Distribution Release: Foresight Linux 2.0.4
July 25, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 2 hours, 3 minutes ago
Paul Cutler announced the release of Foresight Linux 2.0.4, an rPath-based distribution showcasing the latest GNOME technologies. This release features a new theme and a number of minor updates and bug fixes, notably
a problem when trying to install on certain RAID setups.
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Reverse-engineering blog spam malware
July 24, 2008 (11:00:00 PM) - 3 hours, 3 minutes ago
By: Dan Morrill
By: Dan Morrill
A new report on Blog Spam and malware has been released by Offensive computing. It's worth reading if you are interested in finding out about what unhappy tricks blog spammers are embedding in their comments.
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The Mess That is Linux Volume Management
July 24, 2008 (10:30:00 PM) - 3 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Hans Kwint
By: Hans Kwint
The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linx Volume Management, or LVM for short, however it can only really be used from the command line. Also, it doesn't integrate software RAID - except for striping. I was quite optimistic when I started using volume management some four years ago, but not anymore. Let me explain why I'm disappointed.
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Kernel Log: No unstable series; Linux 2008.7; dealing with security fixes
July 24, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 4 hours, 3 minutes ago
Along with 2.6.27 development ramping up, there is a variety of other Linux kernel news. Shortly after the release of Linux 2.6.26, someone on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) asked what sort of changes -- either potential or already in the works -- might give rise to a 2.7 development series. Torvalds did not even wait 20 minutes to respond, "Nothing. I'm not going back to the old model. The new model is so much better that it's not even worth entertaining as a theory to go back."
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Fedora adds collaboration tools
July 24, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 4 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Eric Brown
By: Eric Brown
Fedora has released its Asterisk-based Fedora Talk VoIP application for connecting Fedora contributors. Other news posted on a recent Fedora blog includes notes on a new automated test case management system, a SIG for ISVs, and new OpenID provider status for the Fedora Account System.
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DNS exploit hits Metasploit
July 24, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 5 hours, 3 minutes ago
By: Dan Morrill
By: Dan Morrill
HD Moore has released an exploit module for the Metasploit framework, meaning script kiddies and every other security person and wannabe is going to be downloading it, if they have not already, and playing around with DNS on the Internet today.
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Book review: Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours
July 24, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: James Pyles
By: James Pyles
Django is "an open source Web application framework, written in Python, which loosely follows the model-view-controller design pattern." Before you go any further, check your bag of tricks and make sure you have at least some familiarity with the Python programming language. You're going to need it for this book to be of any use to you.
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Linux 2.6.25.12 released
July 24, 2008 (7:52:32 PM) - 6 hours, 10 minutes ago
By: Greg KH
By: Greg KH
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.25.12
kernel. It contains loads of bugfixes, all over the map. Any users of the
2.6.25 kernel series should upgrade to this version.
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MySQL: Back to its roots via Sun
July 24, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Sean Kerner
By: Sean Kerner
When Sun Microsystems acquired open source database vendor MySQL for $1 billion, MySQL's community held its breath over how the new ownership might impact their community.
During an on-stage discussion at OSCON, Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL AB, and Brian Aker, the director of technology for MySQL, set the record straight.
"My first reaction when we got acquired was -- thank God we didn't go public," Widenius said.
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Open Enterprise Interview: Doug Moran, vice president of community, Pentaho
July 24, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 3 minutes ago
By: Glyn Moody
By: Glyn Moody
Here Doug Moran, one of Pentaho's founders, offers a fascinating description of how the company was created in part by bringing on board the chief architects of several other open source projects, offers not one but two explanations of the Pentaho name, says more on the recent adoption of the GNU GPLv2 for its BI platform, and explains why -- of course -- he thinks Pentaho's solutions are the best.
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Ubuntu Netbooks vs. Mobile Internet Devices: What’s the difference?
July 24, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 7 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Joe Panettieri
By: Joe Panettieri
Canonical has at least two Ubuntu software projects -- one for Netbooks, the other for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) -- that sound strikingly similar. So what’s the difference between Ubuntu for Netbooks and Ubuntu for MIDs? Canonical gave me some answers during OSCON 2008.
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Interview with Helio Chissini de Castro - Mandriva
July 24, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 3 minutes ago
In this interview we talk with Helio Chissini de Castro about the open source environment in Brazil, organization and maintenance of Mandriva, and the future of open source software in Latin America.
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MindTouch sharpens its Deki app masher
July 24, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 33 minutes ago
MindTouch announced on Wednesday the latest version of its open source collaboration and collective intelligence platform, MindTouch Deki (formerly Deki Wiki). Dubbed "Kilen Woods," it features new workflow capabilities, enterprise adapters, and usability improvements. The release targets information workers, IT professionals, and developers looking to collaborate and connect enterprise systems and data sources.
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How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python)
July 24, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 3 minutes ago
By: Falko Timme
By: Falko Timme
This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a Web framework that allows to develop Python Web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.
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Intel says Moblin update coming soon
July 24, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 9 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Paul Krill
By: Paul Krill
Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore. on Wednesday.
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Is Microsoft Irrelevant?
July 24, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 10 hours, 3 minutes ago
By: Darryl K. Taft
By: Darryl K. Taft
Is Microsoft irrelevant?
That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun's MySQL, called the software giant in an onstage Q&A during the opening day of keynotes and sessions at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) here on July 23.
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Checking out Opensolaris 2008.05
July 24, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 10 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Paul Dwerryhouse
By: Paul Dwerryhouse
In May of this year, Sun's "Project Indiana" team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, a major milestone on the path to a community-developed Solaris distribution. The release touted several new features: a live-cd, the ZFS filesystem and a completely new packaging interface. Now, while it was Solaris that started me out on my career as a Unix system administrator, these days I find myself far more often in the realm of Linux. Can OpenSolaris swing the pendulum back towards Sun? I decided to have a good look at it, to find out...
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Sun Takes a Shine to Linux in New Web Stack
July 24, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 11 hours, 3 minutes ago
By: Sean Kerner
By: Sean Kerner
Much of the open source community relies on the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) application stack, a setup that traditionally has been offered through Linux vendors.
Sun Microsystems is now joining the party with its own take on the LAMP stack -- one that could pose a challenge to the LAMP offerings from Linux vendors, since it's aimed at users of Linux as well as Sun Solaris. Eventually, it will support Windows and Mac OS X, too.
Officially called the Web Stack by Sun, the new enterprise "AMP" (Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack also aims to create a new revenue stream from Linux for Sun.
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Google Melange will spice up SoC
July 24, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 11 hours, 33 minutes ago
By: Sean Kerner
By: Sean Kerner
Google's Summer of Code (SoC) has been around since 2005 as a way to get students involved in open source. But according to Google program Manager Leslie Hawthorne the Google system used for managing the projects within the SoC hasn't been all that great. So Google is developing a new collaboration platform called Melange (based on the concept of Melange / spice from Frank Herbert's Dune novels).
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