BBC News | Technology | UK Edition | Linux Today- Creating a Daemon With Python
Enterprise IT Planet: "If you are an average internet user, then you interact with daemons every day. This article will describe what daemons do, how to create them in Python, and what you can use them for." - Via Panel PC Resists Shock, Liquids
LinuxDevices: "Via announced a fanless panel PC that runs Linux, and resists both liquids and dust. The "VIPRO VP7710" includes Via's Eden or C7 processors, a 10.4-inch touchscreen display, gigabit Ethernet, three serial ports, and two USB 2.0 ports, the company says." - Straight Talking About the Unspeakable ACTA
Open Enterprise: "Even more outrageously, those doors are nonetheless being opened for representatives of trade organisations who wish to see their own agendas pushed through, but not for ordinary citizens, who seem to have no rights in this arena." - U of Tennessee Blocked P2P Sites Before RIAA Law
CNet Digital Media: "Truth be told, the state of Tennessee didn't need a lot of prodding from the recording industry to pass a law that requires universities and colleges to filter for unauthorized music downloads." - Speed up Your Internet Access Using Squid's Refresh Patterns
Linux.com: "Bandwidth limitation is still a problem for a lot of people who connect to the Internet. You can improve your available bandwidth by installing Squid caching proxy server on your network with configuration parameters that will increase your byte hit rate, giving you about 30-60% more bandwidth." - Why Firefox Rocks: Great Firefox Tricks, Part IV
LinuxPlanet: "Firefox is cram-full of hidden treasures, as we have learned in this series. Today Akkana Peck exposes Firefox's expertise at handling those ridiculously long URLs that plague the Web-- email clients mangle them, copy and paste is a nightmare-- but Firefox has some special tricks that make them easy." - Sheep-Throwing Marsupial in the "Yo Frankie" Game
Linux Magazine: "If you've ordered the DVD, you're probably already busy throwing sheep and beating up rats in a lovely virtual countryside." - The 7 Deadly Linux Commands
Tech Source From Bohol: "If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system." - VIA Publishes 2D/3D Documentation, Partners With OpenChrome
Phoronix: "Earlier this year VIA announced they wanted to join the open-source bandwagon by establishing an open-source driver development initiative, releasing documentation and source-code, and to better engage with the Linux community at large. They have made a few small steps over the past few months, but today they have made their largest open-source contribution yet by releasing four programming documentation guides..." - FashionYourFirefox: Mozilla's (Partial) Effort to Push Extensions
OStatic: "In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and "online lifestyles," according to Mozilla's announcement."
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LWN.net- Kernel prepatch 2.6.28-rc6
Another 2.6.28 rc is available with the release of 2.6.28-rc6. Most of
the fixes are to CIFS and the mips architecture, though there are some
other small fixes included. The long-format
changelog has all the details. Linus is hoping that while he is gone
for a week scuba diving, "you will all have tested it extensively and
sent me fixes
for any regressions found. Please don't disappoint me."
- Stable kernel update 2.6.27.7
The 2.6.27.7 stable kernel
update has been released. It contains a long list of fixes including one
with a CVE number. As usual, "all users of the 2.6.27 kernel
series are strongly encouraged to upgrade".
- Mandrake Linux Founder Back, Virtually (Internetnews.com)
Internetnews.com
talks to Gael Duval about the Ulteo enterprise Open Virtual
Desktop Solution.
"Whatever happened to the founder of Mandrake Linux? He's back on the scene with a new open source startup and looking to break some ground with its first offering called a Virtual Desktop solution.
Ulteo's new enterprise Open Virtual Desktop Solution is an attempt to break into the broader virtualization and remote desktop space. It's a market that is fiercely competitive with Citrix, VMware and Red Hat's Qumranet all angling for a piece of the market."
- Novell, Microsoft ready management pack for SUSE Linux (TechTarget)
TechTarget
reports on plans for the release of
the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) by Microsoft and Novell.
"Microsoft and Novell Inc. said the two-year-old collaboration to better manage Windows and SUSE Linux will produce its first fruit in the first half of 2009.
Novell will make available the Advanced Management Pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 in the first half of 2009 to coincide with the release of Operations Manager 2007 R2. Novell has not yet set a price.
The management pack will supplement the monitoring assessment and deployment features in Operations Manager and let managers view information using one console, said Sanjay Sidhu, director of marketing and business development at Microsoft."
- Thursday Security Updates
CentOS has updated
kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated
thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities) and
python (multiple vulnerabilities).
Mandriva has updated
dovecot (multiple vulnerabilities) and
kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Slackware has updated
libxml2 (multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated
hplip (multiple vulnerabilities).
- rPath Spurs Operating System Evolution with Ubuntu, CentOS Support
rPath has announced that its rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform will now support Ubuntu and CentOS, SUSE Linux is already
supported.
"rBuilder is the
category-defining build and release management system for creating virtual appliances and
application images. The rPath Lifecycle Management Platform extends rBuilder with a comprehensive
system for controlling the cost, complexity and risk of deploying, managing and maintaining
application images in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
The rPath approach assembles and binds application functionality with an operating system, creating
a self-contained application image that can be easily deployed, managed and maintained."
- Linux Guru Reiser Seeks New Murder Trial (Wired)
Wired
covers the latest twist in the Hans Reiser murder trial.
"Hans Reiser wants a trial do-over.
Reiser is the Linux guru who in April was convicted of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife. He's the same defendant who, in exchange for a 15-to-life term instead of a 25-to-life term, brought authorities to the Oakland hills where he buried Nina Reiser's body.
He even apologized for killing her.
But in a handwritten appellate motion, he is appealing his conviction. Yet there's a glaring problem with this appeal, in which he claims he thought the deal would have only sent him away for three years, not 15-to-life."
- LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2008
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2008 is available.
- A Mozilla year-end report
Mitchell Baker reports on the state of Mozilla. Income continues to rise, and continues to come mostly from Google. Beyond that: "Our community remains healthy and vibrant. The percentage of code contributed to Firefox by people not employed by Mozilla remained steady at about 40% of the product we ship. This is true despite a significant amount of new employees in 2007."
- Linux distros and Apple beat Microsoft's homepage uptime (Royal Pingdom)
The folks over at the Royal Pingdom blog have a comparison of uptimes and home page load times for the web sites of multiple Linux distributions along with Microsoft and Apple. Overall, the results of this month-long monitoring effort reflect quite well on Linux, but the authors are quick to caution that these numbers only reflect a particular point in time. Longer term monitoring is ongoing as well. "It is interesting to see that even with limited resources, many of the teams behind the various Linux distributions are managing a better homepage uptime and load time than Microsoft does, at least during this time period."
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