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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first Linux newsletter of 2005 (at
least as we reckon years). If this is your first such newsletter, we
cover open source development, use, administration, and advocacy. We also
start with new articles from ONLamp.com.
Without the GNU project, where would free software or open source be?
Without the twin desires to have freedom and to spread that freedom, where
would the GNU project be? Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed Richard
Stallman, founder of the GNU project, to discuss the conflicting goals of
freedom, innovation, and convenience:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
The Parrot project, previously an April Fool's joke, continues to improve
in power, flexibility, and realization. Now it's a virtual machine that
looks like it can run Perl, Python, and PHP efficiently (and soon). That
means it's time to embed it in other projects, including the Apache web
server. Jeff Horwitz, leader of the revamped mod_parrot project,
demonstrates:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/12/22/mod_parrot.html
What's the end of the year without a few security alerts? Administrators
deserve vacations too! Noel Davis has collected a few alerts yet again.
This week, remote vulnerabilities may exist in Samba, MPlayer, MIT
Kerberos 5 Administration Library, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise,
Konqueror, Xpdf, and xzgv. Please check with your vendor for news and
updates.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/29/security_alerts.html
Database administrators and users likely know the power of the command
line (we've covered it before). Sometimes the visual display of
information is more useful, though. Besides a handful of web-based MySQL
administrative interfaces, there are a few GUI versions too. Blane
Warrene has reviewed Navicat, a commercial offering, finding it useful and
pleasant:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/12/22/navicat.html
If over the holidays you planned to put together your own Digital Video
Recorder (as did your editor; now this is one of his resolutions for
2005), you may be in the mood for some clever tricks. If you've never
felt the urge to build your own DVR, knowing what you can do with one
besides timeshifting might inspire you to the project. John Littler has
collected several ideas in "Clever Tricks with MythTV" that demonstrate
the flexibility of a general-purpose computer with a TV capture card:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/29/mythtv_hacks.html
Try to read a technology company's press release without hearing the word
"cluster." Good luck. Fortunately, the rise of Linux and the
commoditization of decent hardware puts clustering within reach of more
and more administrators. Joseph Sloan, author of High Performance Linux
Clusters, has provided Ten Tips for Building Your First High-Performance
Cluster:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/6140
This week's book excerpt comes from Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook. The
word of the day is "multiple," whether running different window managers
simultaneously or hosting multiple virtual domains with Apache. Learn how
to do both:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/excerpt/lnxckbk_2/index.html
In this week's weblogs, Bob DuCharme ponders one-too-many links on the
web:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6132
Nitesh Dhanjani suspects a counter overflow in Comair's computer failure:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6134
Andy Oram suggests a potential payoff for marketers using social webs:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6136
Simon St. Laurent promotes open source software for PocketPC:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6141
Uche Ogbuji unpoisons the well with some alternatives to XML:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6145
Jacek Artymiak points to OpenBSD 3.6 snapshots after the switch to gcc3:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6146
Andy Lester dislikes some terrible, old, and still really bad ideas for
fighting spam:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6149
This week's Open Source Project of the Week is Miranda IM, a
multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows:
http://osdir.com/Downloads+index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-156-ttitle-Miranda_IM.phtml
That's all for this week. Have a good new year.
See you next week,
chromatic
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O'Reilly Network
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. Clever Tricks with MythTV
Building your own personal video recorder means that you can avoid
manufacturer- or broadcaster-enforced restrictions. That's not all,
though. John Littler presents some clever ideas on what you can accomplish
with a MythTV box, some free time, and a little work.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/29/mythtv_hacks.html
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2. Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview
Since 1984, Richard M. Stallman has fought for software freedom as a
coder, a project leader, and a philosopher. The GNU GPL and GNU/Linux
projects are just two results of that work. Federico Biancuzzi recently
interviewed rms about his views on freedom, the GNU project, and the Linux
kernel and GNU/Linux distributions.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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3. Ten Tips for Building Your First High-Performance Cluster
Been meaning to build your very first high-performance Linux cluster, but
fear the trials and tribulations? Joseph D. Sloan, author of High
Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI, saves
you the trouble with ten very helpful tips. Now you can get all of the
cost effectiveness of high-performance clusters without all of the
frustration.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/29/lnxclstrs_10.html
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4. 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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5. Anonymous, Open Source P2P with MUTE
It's clear that the current generation of peer-to-peer applications has
one strong drawback -- users aren't anonymous enough. Jason Rohrer's MUTE
is different. It eschews direct downloads in favor of routing all requests
through the network of peers. Howard Wen interviews Rohrer about his
inspiration and goals.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/12/mute.html
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