Date: 07/17/05 (Apache)    Keywords: linux

Environment:

• Fedora Core release 3 (FC3); Kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp on an i686
  
• httpd-2.0.52-3.1 (the most recent RPM for FC3 that I can find)
  
• I host a couple of personal sites on my server, handled as VirtualHosts in httpd.conf
  

fedora_linux

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/apache/22550.html

Date: 07/19/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: linux

Analysis: Here's waht CIOs should investigate to determine whether switching to Linux from Windows will bring about cost savings for the business.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Linux+vs.+Microsoft+TCO+debate+rages/2100-9593_22-5794560.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 07/20/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, web, linux, hosting, apache

Here's what's happening:

My company seems to be dragging its feet on upgrading the Solaris server on which I'm supposed to be running this website I'm developing. I've been hosting on my own external server, and when this summer internship is over, I have to move everything over regardless of whether or not the server is ready.

Consequently, people in my department are trying to hunt down an extra Unix box for me to use as a pseudo-server until the real server is (finally) upgraded.

So here's my question:

I've only touched Unix very remotely, as in using an SSH command-line console with my school's web server. I'm a little familiar with basic Linux commands, but that's about it. How difficult would it be for someone like me (who only uses Linux when she has to for classes) to install Apache, PHP, and MySQL...as well as migrate over my existing website (currently running on a Red Hat 9 server with Apache, PHP 4.x, and MySQL 3.2.3 or something similar)?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/730050.html

Date: 07/22/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

Angus McLaren at TechRepublic writes cluelessly: Anyone who claims to hate Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS or any other operating system is not a true techie or network guru. You don't ever bash the OS, in fact if the OS crashes then it's your fault not the OS; Why didn't you make sure that it was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-it-people-really-bash-windows/

Date: 07/26/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

I've been having problems with a new kernel. Upon boot, it tells me that it can't mount /dev/ram0 and it doesnt exist. this is quite frankly bollocks as my other kernel (2.6.12-r4) can boot from /dev/ram0 no problems. here is my grub.conf

default 1
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r4
root (hd0,5)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda9 vga=791 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x1024-32@60 splash=silent,fadein,theme=emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev ro
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
root (hd0,5)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda9 vga=791 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x1024-32@60 gentoo=nodevfs splash=silent,fadein,theme=emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev ro
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

any ideas?
also, i emerged gimp the other day, but there is no executable for it. $gimp and #gimp don't work, i've searched my entire hdd but can't find anything..

x-posted to computergeeks & linux

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/735777.html

Date: 07/28/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

At ZDNet, we often ask how Linux will ever crack the home market.It might come in through your next mobile phone, but most users won't know it, nor will they use it, as Linux.If you have a wireless router, you may have Linux, or as I've written it may be easy for you to get [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=390&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/04/05 (Security)    Keywords: linux

Serious bugs in the latest Linux kernel have been fixed, a sign that the open-source OS is maturing.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Key+bugs+in+core+Linux+code+squashed/2100-1009_22-5817471.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/04/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

I have a client with Red Hat Linux 8.0 as a file server; here are my questions:

1. I need a program that will sync the time with a time server on the internet.

2. Is there a native program that Linux uses for tape backups? If so, what is it?

Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/741690.html

Date: 08/05/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web, linux, hosting, google

So i'm in the market for getting VPS web hosting. I've found westhost, which seems to have a great deal going on. Have any of you heard of them, used them, or have horror stories about them? I've googled a bit for information about them, but as always, first-hand experience is more reliable.

Any other VPS recommendations if you have it would be great.

xposted to geeks and linux

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/742459.html

Date: 08/05/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

A few months ago, Linux Magazine columnist Jason Perlow suggested that Novell open SUSE Linux as a "public, open source project similar to Fedora." Thanks in part to Perlow's column, it looks like that's exactly what Novell is doing. Novell had planned to announce this at Linux World Conference and Expo, but it looks [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=400&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/08/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

I'm among the first to say that open source means more than Linux. And I can't blame a show organizer for wanting to make money, for striking while the brand is hot. But is this a show you should be attending? Is this show really useful? Is this trip really necessary?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=403&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/10/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web, linux, microsoft

One of the main setbacks of Firefox from becoming an ubiquitous browser, is its resistance of use by the corporate community. However, FX is slowly entering this market through the back door; meaning through the Linux operating system. Overriding the many obstacles from Microsoft, Linux has a stronghold in the server market. It is also well known, that Firefox has been embraced by the top brass of some Linux companies such as Red Hat and Suse.

Firefox is the default web browser in Red Hat and Suse Linux, though it's also widely used on Windows, and has been gaining market share. IBM has also been known as a heavy Firefox user and a Linux promoter. As Linux continues to gain popularity in the business community, it will probably piggyback Firefox into the corporate scene. Here is where the big guys play; in the business community.

Earlier this year, IBM advertised it was willing to hire Firefox programmers. The writing is on the wall.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/305076.html

Date: 08/10/05 (Apache)    Keywords: web, linux, apache

[Cross posted to apache, httpd, linux]

I've been given the assignment to setup dual web servers behind a ServerIron load balancer in an effort to improve the reliability of my company's website. Unfortunately, I have never done this before where I had to deal with https on redundant servers. My question may be quite simple, but I don't know the answer.

How do I get secure certificates for multiple servers with the same common name? Creating the CSR is the easy part, but last time I tried to get multiple certificates for the same common name, it failed as there was already one certificate created for that name.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/apache/24184.html

Date: 08/12/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: software, browser, html, linux, microsoft

Yesterday we commented that Firefox was receiving a push forward into corporate territory from Linux . The term we used was "piggyback". Well, today I read in CNET News.com, that thousands of secondary school students in the French region of Auvergne, will receive CDs containing free and open-source software when they return to school in September.

The local government of Auverne will distribute 64,000 packs of CDs in an effort to interest students and their families in free and open-source software. Every student between the ages of 15 and 19 attending a school in Auvergne will be given a pack containing two CDs. The first CD contains free software for Microsoft Windows and Apple Computer's Mac OS X, including the OpenOffice.org office productivity application, the Firefox browser and the GIMP image editing application. The second CD is a Linux Live CD, allowing pupils to try the open source operating system without installing it. The Linux Live CD is based on Kaella, a French derivative of Knoppix.

Here again, we are before another example of Linux and Firefox walking hand-in-hand. I think this is a good opportunity to promote Firefox among french students and their parents. At the same time, they are exposing themselves to the wide features of Linux. Who said penguins and foxes couldn't live in France?

To read the complete article, click here: http://news.com.com/Massive+Linux+handout+set+for+French+schools/2100-7344_3-5828644.html?tag=nefd.top

Cheers,

Omar.-

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/305328.html

Date: 08/15/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: security, linux, yahoo, microsoft

I was taken by suprise this morning, when I read the news that FX's market share shrunk from 8.71 percent in July to 8.07 percent in June. On the other hand, IE grew its market slice to 87.20 in July from 86.56 percent in June. I was under the impression that FX had been receiving a push from the Linux side, attracting the corporate community to its side.

I wonder if negative publicity of security flaws detected in FX's v.1.0.4. and 1.0.5., scared FX's users to the IE's camp. Some of my friends and colleagues, have commented that they are very positive of new features to be included in next v.1.5. which would probably be announced by late summer. I, for one, am very excited about this upgrade.

FYI, Total Market Share Percentage is distributed as follows:

1. Microsoft - Internet Explorer: 87.20
2. Mozilla - Firefox: 8.07
3. Apple - Safari: 2.13
4. AOL - Netscape: 1.50
5. Opera - Opera: 0.49
6. Others: 0.61

Any comments regarding this news?

If you want to read PC World Magazine's article, please click here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20050815/tc_pcworld/122213

Regards,

Omar.-

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/306236.html

Date: 08/17/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

If openSUSE can move the needle of Linux desktop acceptance, even just a little bit, it's a very good thing indeed.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=412&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/17/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week, I went to Novell's press conference on OpenSUSE, and sat down with Novell's Director of Marketing for Linux, Greg Mancusi-Ungaro to talk about the project and how Novell plans to differentiate OpenSUSE from Fedora. As Dana points out, the project doesn't seem to be setting the world on [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=411&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/18/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: programming, linux

Language creates patterns of thought that affect everything else you do, including programming. If the cutting edge of Linux becomes Chinese (or when it becomes Chinese), what are you going to do?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=413&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/22/05 (Code WTF)    Keywords: sql, java, linux

Java poetry, Linux Haiku, SQL poem, Allitle rude VB poem.

Читать тут http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~sashakra/ на английском.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/code_wtf/13570.html

Date: 08/24/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux

Freespire is a new free Linux distribution from Linspire. It is Linspire with all proprietary components and trademarks removed. The distribution has a free repository of over 1,500 packages, available via apt-get and Synaptic. Initial release of Freespire functions as live CD only and serves as a proof of concept. Linspire is known for excellent [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/linspire-goes-freespire/