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Welcome one and all to the Linux newsletter, the specifically named weekly
big tent e-mail about source administration, development, deployment,
evangelism, and use. Here's what's new this week.
Noel Davis' Security Alerts column reported possible remote
vulnerabilities in TWiki, phpBB, Cyrus IMAP, Bugzilla, ProZilla, unarj,
libxml2, and fetch. If you use or administer these programs, please check
with your vendor for updated versions. Noel has more details:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/01/security_alerts.html
In the past few years, developer-level testing has grown in popularity.
If you haven't tried test-driven development, you might wonder what the
fuss is; won't your QA department (okay, stop laughing) catch bugs?
According to Jason Diamond, that's only one of many benefits. His "Test
Driven Development in Python" walks through the building of an actual
small application to demonstrate how TDD helps him write the right code:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/12/02/tdd_pyunit.html
One of the big jumps in usability in the database world in recent years
has been graphical display of data. This applies beyond developers and
beyond relational databases; graphical representation and adminstration of
LDAP databases is also a help. Alexander Prohorenko's "LDAP Server
Administration with GOsa" explains the setup and use of the web-based GOsa
project to manage lightweight directories:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/12/02/gosa.html
It's a new month again, so Sam Smith has provided yet another roundup of
the month in BSD. His November 2004 column has dozens of links to news
and discussion in the OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Dragonfly BSD, and Darwin
worlds for throughout November:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a//bsd/2004/12/02/november.html
This week's book-related article comes from Kyle Rankin's Knoppix Hacks.
"True Stories of Knoppix Rescues" tells two short stories where Kyle used
Knoppix to recover from filesystem errors on one box and from a destroyed
partition table on another. Hopefully, you'll never have to face these
issues, but if you do, here's how one admin, armed with Knoppix, saved the
data:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/02/knpxhks_1.html
For the sometimes-overlapping groups of Linux devotees and Apple fans, two
articles on the Mac DevCenter might have some appeal. Giles Turnbill's
"Why Install Linux on Your Mac?" examines some of the reasons that
otherwise reasonable people (such as your editor) prefer a Linux
distribution to Mac OS X on Apple hardware:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/30/linux.html
Further, longtime ORN contributor Howard Wen looks at PearPC, the PowerPC
emulator for Windows or Linux. It can run Mac OS X on x86 hardware and
continues to improve:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/12/03/pearpc.html
In this week's weblogs, Jacek Artymiak promotes meetBSD 2004, a Polish BSD
conference:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5994
brian d foy comments on e-mail filter autoresponders that explain how to
work around them:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5999
David Battino ponders how value isn't always what you might expect:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6006
Chris Shiflett promotes the PHP testing framework he and Geoff Young
created:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6008
Schuyler Erle has finally made more ANARCHIST CRIMINAL PARASITE t-shirts:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6012
Kyle Rankin raves about wmctrl, shell controls for extended window manager
functions:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6014
Bob DuCharme picks up on the idea of well-formatted web links:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6016
Carla Schroder rejoices that the Linux Cookbook has hit the stores:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6018
Andy Oram explores GNOME's approach to improving community-generated
online documentation:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6023
This week's Open Source Project of the Week is AWStats, an advanced web
server log analyzer:
http://osdir.com/Downloads+index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-112-ttitle-AWStats.phtml
That's this week's newsletter. Upcoming articles include a Slony
installation guide and implementing RAID on FreeBSD.
Until then,
chromatic
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. True Stories of Knoppix Rescues
A battle-hardened sysadmin shares his near-death tales ... of Knoppix
rescue. Kyle Rankin, author of Knoppix Hacks, is a true Knoppix veteran
with endless stories of broken systems and machines in distress. In this
article, he shares a few of his favorites, complete with outcomes and
weapons of choice. Not for the faint of heart.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/02/knpxhks_1.html
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2. The Month in BSD: November 2004
OpenBSD fights firmware license shenanigans, FreeBSD releases 5.3, and
Europe holds a convention. Sam Smith summarizes the BSD news for November
2004.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a//bsd/2004/12/02/november.html
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3. Inside EuroBSDCon 2004
European BSD fans recently had the opportunity to meet and talk during
EuroBSDCon 2004. Federico Biancuzzi was there. Here are his thoughts from
the conference and ideas on how to improve conferences for the rest of the
European BSD community.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/24/eurobsdcon2004.html
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4. Speeding up Linux Using hdparm
Instantly double the I/O performance of your disks or, in some cases, show
6 to 10 times your existing throughput!
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
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5. FreeBSD for Linux Users
BSD and Linux are both Unix workalikes. How different can they be? In
certain cases, very! Though the systems share a family tree, their
differences sometimes stand out. Dru Lavigne explains FreeBSD's runlevels,
startup scripts, kernel configuration, and documentation systems to Linux
users.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html
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