Matt Croydon::Postneo

Category: Linux

  • Skimming the News

    I’ve stumbled upon many things that need to be explored in depth, but for the time being, here are a few quick links that I thought were interesting:

    • [H]ard|OCP: “The mini digital media boards known as the VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX mainboards get certification from Microsoft for their CE embedded OS. Kinda cool, you know…a tiny OS for a tiny PC.”
    • BBC: “Looking to the future, Mr Iwata said Nintendo was planning to launch a next-generation console in 2005 or 2006.”
    • Roblimo had fun hanging out at the dot-org section of Linux World.  That corner was less PR BS and more work/play than the rest of the show.  More on that later.
    • Wired News: “NEW YORK — Penguin jokes are proliferating in even greater numbers than usual at LinuxWorld 2003.”
    • Greg released a new version of NewsGator.

  • Off To Linux World

    I’m off to New York City in the morning.  I’m going to take a ferry into the city (there’s a ferry stop about a block from the Javits center).  Watch this space for news and updates about and from the show.

  • AMD @ Linux World

    CNet is reporting that AMD is hyping up their Opteron (stupid name for an awesome chip) at Linux World:

    “We’re here to support you, the open-source community,” Ruiz told the audience.

  • NewsForge Linux World Expo Coverage

    Roblimo is posting his thoughts about Linux World Expo over at NewsForge:

    For some reason an awful lot of hardware vendors that push Linux on servers seem to feel it’s just fine to have lots of Windows screens on the computers they use in their booths to run slide shows or demonstrate their products. Personally, I have always thought this was stupid. I actually asked a booth person for a company I will not name, “Does this mean you show Linux desktops at Windows-oriented shows?”

    It should be interesting.

  • My Fab Facility Runs Linux

    CNet reports that IBM is retrofitting one of their fabrication facilities.  What does the server room of a fab facility like that look like?

    Server room holds over 1,700 1GHz-plus processors, 1.5 terabytes of memory and 110 terabytes of storage. Runs on Linux.

  • Java/Linux

    Matt Raible:

    I dig the Linux/Java combo – it just works!

  • Geek Girl: Linux or .NET?

    Geek GirlWired News:

    For her part, Sullivan has a theory about the mystery woman’s true geek roots.

    “I think she’s a Mac user,” she said.

  • Mono Debugger Released

    Here’s the scoop from the mono site:

    • After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded applications and should be relatively easy to port to new platforms.
    • Details of the release are available in post.
    • The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces. The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2 flag to gcc).

  • Newest Red Hat Beta

    OSNews:

    Late last night Red Hat made available on its ftp web site a new beta of its upcoming Red Hat Linux 8.1 distribution, codenamed Phoebe 8.0.93 (they used the same codename as in the first beta a month ago (8.0.92)). ISOs here, documentation, release notes.

    I’ll hold off until 8.1, but from the looks of things, it shouldn’t be too long.

  • Mono Update

    Mono News:

    • Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
    • MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the distribution, and MCS works with it.
    • Zoltan has managed to get IKVM (a Java VM for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with the Mono runtime.

  • Easily Install Oracle 8.1.7 on Red Hat Linux

    A NewsForge-brodcasted press release sounds quite useful:

    Version 1.72 of Installgen generates the scripts required to automate the installation of Oracle 8.1.7 databases on 8 releases of Red Hat Linux.

  • MandrakeSoft Chapter 11

    OSNews: MandrakeSoft Files for Chapter 11 – it’s Official.

  • Freshmeat Roundup

    Here are several programs that I think are worth mentioning or taking a look at.  These have been released or updated in the last day or so.  I regularly try to point out notable freshmeat releases in individual posts, but there are a bunch today:

    fn 0.0.1 was announced on freshmeat today.  Here’s the project description:

    fn (FetchNews) is a non-interactive command-line tool for downloading and aggregating xml-based newsfeeds from web sites. It is suitable for use in a cron job to gather newsfeeds and generate reports at regular intervals.

    It looks like this bad boy is written in C for the following reason:

    A program like this should really have been done in a scripting language like perl or python, but when I started writing it I was bored with both those languages and was looking for a challenge.

    Good stuff.  The author has made some output from his program available.

    pycURL 7.10.3 (and the underlying cURL/libCURL 7.10.3) has been released.  Looks like a bugfix/tweak release from here.

    JCTerm, a Java SSH2 terminal emulator, 0.0.2 has been released:

    New features include sftp support, function keys and arrow keys support, and improved rendering speed.

    TkVNC, a VNC viewer written in pure Tcl/Tk (!!!), 0.9 is out.

    Qt# 0.6 is out:

    This version improves support for Portable.NET and Ximian Mono, corrects the ctor signature for QTabWidget, now explicitly names all anonymous enums, includes boxing constructor access modifiers, adds missing methods to QComboBox, corrects ctor syntax for the examples, adds byte[] to QByteArray conversion, adds a new qmake-based build system for qtc distributions, adds a new csant-based build system for Qt# distributions, and includes a QFractals sample, a port of a Java quantum fractal generator to C#.

  • LinuxWorld Blogger Meetup?

    Update: Please go to my wiki page on this subject.

    I’ll be in New York City to attend the LinuxWorld Expo for probably one (perhps more if it’s worth it, though this poor compsci student only has an expo pass) of the following days:

    • Jan 22 – Matt Croydon?
    • Jan 23 – Matt Croydon?
    • Jan 24 – Matt Croydon?

    I know that there are several NY local bloggers out there and I’m sure that many more will be converging on the Javits center for one or more of these days.  Shall we arrange a weblogger meetup/dinner/gathering?  Something like Spicy Noodles or RTP Lunch for the Linux blogging crowd that will be on hand?  How does does 6ish (1 hour after exhibit hall closes) sound?  Somewhere, I’m not sure where.  Suggestions?

    If you’ll be around one or more of these days in the general LinuxWorld Expo/New York area, drop me an email with when you’ll be around and I’ll add you to the list.

    Any RTPers?  Anyone traveling from the west coast?  Any fellows?  Any Senior Editors at Linux Journal?

    Yeah, yeah, I know this should be done wiki-style.  Perhaps this will be motivation to set one up.

  • Microsoft .NET Connected

    Phil Wainewright:

    How long before some version of Linux earns the “Microsoft .NET Connected” badge? That day may be closer than anyone expects — I predict it will be in the first half of 2004.

    Bold prediction.  I’d love to see it happen.

  • NTP

    Glenn Graham has a good overview of NTP at O’Reillynet:

    If your server doesn’t keep accurate time, your log files are useless in the event of an incident that requires log-dependent information, including security breaches. E-mail servers and other clients depend on accurate time to relay, send, and receive data. What good is the date stamp contained in an e-mail if the server that passed that information is inaccurate? These programs all must be timed precisely to within 1/100 of a second.

  • Samba 3.0

    OpenBSD Journal:

    More from The O’Reilly Network people. This one is about what is forthcoming in the 3.0 release of Samba. Samba provides file sharing and authentication services for Windows hosts from UNIX systems and is in OpenBSD ports. From the description of 3.0, this one looks like its worth trying out: active directory support and Kerberos look to be on the table.

    Has anyone tried this on OpenBSD?

  • Monday Linkfest

    I roadtripped to North Carolina today to do lunch with some of the RTP bloggers.  Excellent food and great conversation.  I also did some last minute (except for me it’s just getting started) xmas shopping this evening.  Instead of any real content, here are a bunch of things that I need to read in detail:

    • Michael J. Radwin: “YHOO is buying INKT”
    • Slashdot (and the rest of the planet) announced Red Hat 8.0.96, codenamed Phoebe.  XFree updates, Moz 1.2.1, and glibc-2.3.1 seem to be the major points here.
    • Sean & Scott install .NET Server RC2 using VMWare, with Sam Gentile‘s help. (I’m downloading RC2 myself right now, will try to throw it on a lonely box when I get a chance)
    • Chris Gulker digs further into weblog statistics.
    • DSpace 1.0.1 is released.  “DSpace, currently in use at MIT Libraries, is a Java-based Open Source digital library system designed for scalability, and the long-term preservation of data (such as books, documents, and multimedia publications).”
    • Rick Klau is making me drool over the Matrix sequels.
    • Learn MIDP (J2ME) with a game.  Mental note: I need to download the wireless toolkit, as it is much sexier than the barebones SDK.
    • There is a fullblown service called Wapblogger which allows you to do much more than my whipped together WAPBlog script.
    • Sadness: Joe Strummer of The Clash has died.
    • Silicon.com reports that IBM is releasing its “Storage Tank” as open source.

     

  • VisualAge C++

    Hack the Planet:

    IBM VisualAge C++ for Linux on pSeries, V6.0 Beta. Good news for PPC Linux users.

  • Mono & .Net: The odd couple

    CNet:

    And de Icaza says he has unofficial word that in the coming weeks Microsoft plans to share .Net-related intellectual property. Pending review by Microsoft lawyers, he says, “Microsoft patents on technology developed specifically for .Net will be granted royalty-free to those trying to implement the spec.”

    [Via Newsforge]