How do I start working with Amazon EC2?
My boss would really like to know how to start working with this software on Linux.
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Desktop or Server, SUSE or Red Hat?
I've been asked to set up a Linux build in our 2003 server network to run and test open-source applications that will rival and outperform other applications for their cost. This Linux box must serve a small handful of users in Los Angeles and Europe and my network is in Phoenix Arizona.

Will a desktop Linux Deployment work or should I purchase a subscription-based server deployment ie. Red Hat or SUSE?
Linux Answers ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:49:01 2010

Xen: I sit possible to convert a real server into a virtual server?
I have two physical servers running CentOS 4.  I'd like to replace the install with Debian, running Xen and recreate the CentOS 4 servers as virtual servers.  Is there a way to convert a real server into a virtual server?
Linux Answers ~Created Tue Mar 9 18:49:01 2010

Retrieve EMail address from Active Directory in a bash script

Hi Everyone,

I need to create a script integrated with Samba that retrieves email addresses from given names, let me explain it better  ok ?

I've a Linux Machine into an Active Directory forest, i can get information for current AD usernames, something like:
myserver:~# wbinfo -i andrea
andrea:*:10014:10001:Andrea Benini:/home/DOMAIN/andrea:/bin/bash

I need to retrieve email address for the specified used, possibly using only bash scripts and utilities found in my system (AD integration through Samba+winbindd), is there a way to do it ?

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PC-BSD 8.0 Release Focuses On Desktop Use
donadony writes "Last Monday PC-BSD 8.0 was released. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD much easier for desktop use. The 8.0 release includes support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. The PC-BSD team has also developed a friendly package manager system with a simple-to-use GUI tool (see the screenshots tour). For a full list of changes, refer to the changelog."

Benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD vs. GNU/Linux
An anonymous reader writes "The Debian Squeeze release is going to be accompanied by a first-rate kFreeBSD port and now early benchmarks of this port have started coming out using daily install images. The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project is marrying the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland and glibc while making most of the Debian repository packages available for kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64. The first Debian GNU/kFreeBSD benchmarks compare the performance of it to Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.6.30 kernel while the rest of the packages are the same. Results are shown for both i386 and x86_64 flavors. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD may be running well, but it has a lot of catching up to do in terms of speed against Linux."

FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux
dnaumov writes "FreeNAS, a popular, free NAS solution, is moving away from using FreeBSD as its underlying core OS and switching to Debian Linux. Version 0.8 of FreeNAS as well as all further releases are going to be based on Linux, while the FreeBSD-based 0.7 branch of FreeNAS is going into maintenance-only mode, according to main developer Volker Theile. A discussion about the switch, including comments from the developers, can be found on the FreeNAS SourceForge discussion forum. Some users applaud the change, which promises improved hardware compatibility, while others voice concerns regarding the future of their existing setups and lack of ZFS support in Linux."

Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets
An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF's Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear's Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD. The first cheques were sent out earlier today." Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually.

Serious Remote FreeBSD Exploit Posted, Patched
Trailrunner7 writes "A researcher has published an explanation of a new flaw in FreeBSD that allows a remote attacker to take control of a vulnerable machine. The vulnerability could give an attacker root access to the FreeBSD machine, and the FreeBSD developers have published a patch for the flaw early Tuesday. The vulnerability lies in run-time link-editor and, if exploited, gives an attacker the ability to run arbitrary code. The researcher, Kingcope, has posted an explanation of the flaw on the Full Disclosure mailing list. In a message to FreeBSD users, Colin Percival, the project's security officer, said that because of the severity of the flaw and the fact that exploit code already is available, he felt it was necessary to post the patch as soon as possible, without even publishing a security advisory."

FreeBSD 8.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8 stable release. Some of the highlights: Xen DomU support, network stack virtualization, stack-smashing protection, TTY layer rewrite, much improved ZFS v13, a new USB stack, multicast updates including IGMPv3, vimage — a new virtualization container, Fedora 10 Linux binary compatibility to run Linux software such as Flash 10 and others, trusted BSD MAC (Mandatory Access Control), and rewritten NFS client/server introducing NFSv4. Inclusion of improved device mmap() extensions will allow the technical implementation of a 64-bit Nvidia display driver for the x86-64 platform. The GNOME desktop environment has been upgraded to 2.26.3, KDE to 4.3.1, and Firefox to 3.5.5. There is also an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes in FreeBSD 8.0, including a screenshot tour, upgrade instructions are posted here. You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread the word by tweeting and blogging about the drive and release."

OpenBSD 4.6 Released
pgilman writes "The release of OpenBSD 4.6 was announced today. Highlights of the new release include a new privilege-separated smtpd; numerous improvements to packet filtering, software RAID, routing daemons, and the TCP stack; a new installer; and lots more. Grab a CD set or download from a mirror, and please support the project (which also brings you OpenSSH and lots of other great free software) if you can."

Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD
bonch writes "Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, which was recently open sourced, has been ported to FreeBSD and is planned to be included by default in FreeBSD 8.1. Also known as libdispatch, the API allows the use of function-based callbacks but will also support blocks if built using FreeBSD's clang compiler package. There's already discussion of modifying BSD's system tools to use the new technology." The port was originally unveiled last month at the 2009 Developer Summit in Cambridge. Slides from that presentation are available via the Dev Summit wiki.

Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status
Reader tail.man points out this press release from Debian which says that the port of the Debian system to the FreeBSD kernel will be given equal footing alongside Debian's several other release ports, starting with the release of Squeeze. Excerpting from this release: "The kFreeBSD architectures for the AMD64/Intel EM64T and i386 processor architectures are now release architectures. Severe bugs on these architectures will be considered release critical the same way as bugs on other architectures like armel or i386 are. If a particular package does not build or work properly on such an architecture this problem is considered release-critical. Debian's main motivation for the inclusion of the FreeBSD kernel into the official release process is the opportunity to offer to its users a broader choice of kernels and also include a kernel that provides features such as jails, the OpenBSD Packet Filter and support for NDIS drivers in the mainline kernel with full support."

FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks
An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has brought benchmarks comparing the FreeBSD 8.0-RC and Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 operating systems. FreeBSD rather ends up taking a wallop to Ubuntu Linux, but there are a few areas where FreeBSD 8 ran well. They also posted benchmarks comparing this near-final FreeBSD 8.0 build to that of FreeBSD 7.2 to show performance improvements there but with a few regressions."

DragonFly 2.4 Released
electrostaticcarrot writes "DragonFly — that fourth major BSD — has had its 2.4 release. The 'most invasive change' is the addition and usage of a DevFS for /dev; building on this, drives are now also recognized by serial number (along with /etc/devtab for aliases) as listed in /dev/serno. This is also the first release with a x86-64 ISO, stable but with limited pkgsrc support. Other larger changes include a ported and feature-extended (with full hotplug and port multiplier support) AHCI driver (and SILI driver based on it) originally taken from OpenBSD, major NFS changes, and HAMMER updates. A pkgsrc GIT mirror has also been set up and put in use to make future pkgsrc updates quicker and smoother. Here are two of the mirrors."

TwIP - An IP Stack In a Tweet
Adam Dunkels writes "Inspired by the Twitter-sized program that crashes Mac OS X, I just wrote a really, really rudimentary IP stack called twIP, small enough to fit in a Twitter tweet. Although twIP is very far away from a real IP stack, it can do the first task of any IP stack: respond to pings. The entire source code can be found in this 128-character-long tweet. For those who are interested in low-level network programming, a code walkthrough with instructions on how to run the code under FreeBSD is available here. The FAQ: Q: why? A: for fun."

Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax"
Handbrewer writes "The FreeBSD developer Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) has sued Lenovo in Denmark (Google translation, original here) over their refusal to refund the Windows Vista Business license, even though he declined the EULA during installation. Lenovo argues that they sell the computer as a full product, and that they cannot refund it partially, such as the power supply or the OS even if people intend to use a different one. This seems to be contrary to previous rulings in the EU where Acer and HP has been forced to refund the 'Microsoft tax.'"

Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works
An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function. Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success."

KDE 4.2.4 Released
An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.2.4 has been released. See the release announcement for details." Barring a "security issue or another grave bug," this is the end of the KDE 4.2 line, which means for distros based on long-term support, it might be the thing to get used to for a while.

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Call for Papers: 12th German Perl Workshop 2010
mhx writes "GPW 12.0 — ”Modern Perl“ The 12th German Perl Workshop will be hosted from June 7th to 9th 2010 in Schorndorf near Stuttgart. The workshop is targeted towards all experienced and beginning Perl developers. Obviously, the workshop is only as good as its talks — your talks. We are interested in all talks about Perl itself or about Perl related topics, and especially talks that would apply to this year's motto “Modern Perl“. The submission deadline for your 5, 20 or 40 minute talks has been extended until March 5th, 2010.     http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2010 The German Perl Workshop is a yearly held conference with mostly german-speaking users and developers of the Perl programming language. The main focus of the workshop held by the Deutscher Perl-Workshop GbR and the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart (WRS) is ”Modern Perl“. The CPAN modules Catalyst, Moose and DBIx::Class are playing major roles: Catalyst as a flexible web framework, Moose with its postmodern object system for Perl and DBIx::Class as a layer between applications and databases."

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YAPC Europe Foundation financial reports published
BooK writes "The YAPC Europe Foundation's treasurer has put all the Foundation's financial reports (from 2004 to present) online. For those not interested in the gory details of "what has YEF been doing with the money it got from donations", there's also a global picture. This information is made public because YEF gets its funding from the Perl community, which has a right to know what's done with its money, and also in the hope that it will make the YAPC Europe Foundation's purpose clearer to everyone."

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OSDC.TW calls for papers
hcchien writes "We are glad to announce the OSDC.TW 2010 will be at 2010/4/24-25 in Acadmeia Sinica, Taipei. So it's time to call for papers now. If you work for any interesting open source projects. It is a good time to introduce your projects to the open source developers in Taiwan. And sure, we would like to get the talks about the developing tips and experence sharing. The deadline of call of paper is 31th, January, 2010. And we accept three kind of talks: tutorial: 3 hours, and we would provide the flight fee if the speakers are out of Taiwan. session: 1 hour. lightning talk: 5 minute. If you are interesting to submit the papers, please isending mail to submit@osdc.tw, and including the author intro and extract."

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Effective Perl Programming master class at Frozen Perl
At Frozen Perl 2010 in Minneapolis, I'm teaching a new master class based on my latest book, Effective Perl Programming, 2nd Edition. Perl has changed quite a bit since Joseph Hall wrote the first edition over 10 years ago. Josh McAdams and I have added a lot of new information as well as updated the existing material. In the one-day class for intermediate Perl programmers, I'll cover selected topics from the book, including: Working with Unicode in PerlTricks with filehandlesNew regex features in Perl 5.10 and laterPlaying with pack()Using closures to make things simplerand other topics as time allows Although the book hasn't been published yet, it is available for pre-order, and attendees to the class can get a sneak peek at the working manuscript as well as a soft copy of the course slides.

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eumm-migrate - easy way to migrate to Module::Build
Continuing celebration of Perl birthday... ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a well known and well problematic module for installing Perl modules. eumm-migrate is a tool I wrote to migrate from ExtUtils::MakeMaker to Module::Build. It executes Makefile.PL with fake ExtUtils::MakeMaker and rewrites all parameters for WriteMakefile into corresponding params of Module::Build->new. Calls to 'prompt' are also intercepted and corresponding 'prompt' is written to Build.PL. All other info should be ported manually. Install App::EUMM::Migrate from CPAN and just run eumm-migrate.pl (it will be in your PATH) in directory with Makefile.PL. If you use Github, Internet connection is recommended. eumm-migrate tries to automatically detect some properties like license, minimum Perl version required and repository used. If someone needs it, I can also add a Module::Install writer. P.S. If you want to just use new features of EU::MM, see eumm-upgrade.

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Perl 5.11.3 now available
jesse writes ""Say I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of     course you'd druther work wouldn't you? Course you would!"     Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"     "Why ain't that work?"     Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it     is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."     "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"     The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't     to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"     That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom     swept his brush daintily back and forth stepped back to note the effect     added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again Ben     watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more     absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."                                         Mark Twain, /The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/ It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.3. This is the fourth DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to astable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changesin this release in the file "perl5113delta.pod" inside the distribution. Perl 5.11.3 is, hopefully, the last release of Perl 5.11.x beforecode freeze for Perl 5.12.0. At that point, we will only make changeswhich fix regressions from previous released versions of Perl or whichresolve issues we believe would make a stable release of Perl 5.12.0inadvisable. You can (or will shortly be able to) download the 5.11.3 release from:         http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.3/ The release's SHA1 signatures are: MD5: 0051020f8ae2a89c9d624e01ed56b02c perl-5.11.3.tar.bz2SHA1: 7fe87005437002f0b515d983429d0bfba36398ac perl-5.11.3.tar.bz2 This release corresponds to commit 9c3f2640bc in Perl's git repository.It is tagged as 'v5.11.3'. We welcome your feedback on this release. If you discover issueswith Perl 5.11.3, please use the 'perlbug' tool included in thisdistribution to report them. If Perl 5.11.3 works well for you, pleaseuse the 'perlthanks' tool included with this distribution to tell theall-volunteer development team how much you appreciate their work. If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you testyour software against development releases. While we strive to maintainsource compatibility with prior stable versions of Perl wherever possible,it is always possible that a well-intentioned change can have unexpectedconsequences. If you spot a change in a development version which breaksyour code, it's much more likely that we will be able to fix it before thenext stable release. If you only test your code against stable releasesof Perl, it may not be possible to undo a backwards-incompatible changewhich breaks your code. Perl 5.11.3 represents approximately one month of development sincePerl 5.11.2 and contains 61407 lines of changes across 396 filesfrom 40 authors and committers: Abigail, Alex Davies, Alexandr Ciornii, Andrew Rodland, AndyDougherty, Bram, brian d foy, Chip Salzenberg, Chris Williams, CraigA. Berry, Daniel Frederick Crisman, David Golden, Dennis Kaarsemaker,Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Gene Sullivan, Gerard Goossen, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden,Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard, MaxMaischein, Michael Breen, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, RafaelGarcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Stepan Kasal, SteveHay, Steve Peters, Tim Bunce, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit and Zefram. Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPANmodules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPANcommunity for helping Perl to flourish. Notable changes in this release: * Perl is shipped with Unicode version 5.2, itself released in October     2009. * Perl can now handle every Unicode character property. * The experimental 'legacy' pragma, introduced with Perl 5.11.2 has been     removed. Its functionality has been replaced with the 'feature' pragma. * Numerous CPAN "toolchain" modules have been updated to what we hope     are the final release versions for Perl 5.12.0. * Many crashing bugs or regressions from earlier releases of Perl were fixed     for this release. Development versions of Perl are released monthly on or about the 20thof the month by a monthly "release manager". You can expect followingupcoming releases:   January 20 Ricardo Signes   February 20 Steve Hay   March 20 Ask Bjørn Hansen"

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Frozen Perl 2010 Call for Speakers
olegm writes "It's that time of year again! I am writing to advertise to all of you that Frozen Perl 2010 will be on February 5-7, 2010. The call for speakers is open and I'd like extend an invite to speak to the community. Check it out at http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/cfs.html We are also offering a hackthon on Sunday, and two classes, "Effective Perl Programming", taught by brian d foy and "Introduction to Moose" taught by Dave Rolsky on Friday February 5th. Please submit your talks before Midnight on December 14th at http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/newtalk ."

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Perl 5.11.2
acme writes:   The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here  at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the   streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in the   area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently live   in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into colour.   All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch: as you   walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're wearing.   When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone prone to   epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood, however   much they're into colour.                  - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward" It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.2. This is the third DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to a stable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes in this release in the file "perl5112delta.pod" inside the distribution. You can download the 5.11.2 release from:    http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/perl-5.11.2/ The release's SHA1 signatures are:    2988906609ab7eb00453615e420e47ec410e0077  perl-5.11.2.tar.gz   0014442fdd0492444e1102e1a80089b6a4649682  perl-5.11.2.tar.bz2

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Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 (
Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 ("Lisbon")On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce theNovember 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #23 "Lisbon".Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the November 2009 releaseis available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloadsDue to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequentaddition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we recommend building Rakudofrom the latest source, available from the main repository at github.More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo.Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release codenamed after a Perl Mongers group. The November 2009 release is codenamed "Lisbon" for Lisbon.pm, who did a marvellous job arranging thisyear's YAPC::EU.Shortly after the October 2009 (#22) release, the Rakudo teambegan a new branch of Rakudo development ("ng") that refactorsthe grammar to much more closely align with STD.pm as well asupdate some core features that have been difficult to achievein the master branch [1, 2]. Most of our effort for the past monthhas been in this new branch, but as of the release date the newversion had not sufficiently progressed to be the release copy.We expect to have the new version in place in the December 2009 release.This release of Rakudo requires Parrot 1.8.0. One must stillperform "make install" in the Rakudo directory before the "perl6"executable will run anywhere other than the Rakudo build directory.For the latest information on building and using Rakudo Perl, see thereadme file section titled "Building and invoking Rakudo".Some of the specific changes and improvements occuring with thisrelease include:* Rakudo is now passing 32,753 spectests, an increase of 171 passing     tests since the October 2009 release. With this release Rakudo is     now passing 85.5% of the available spectest suite.* As mentioned above, most development effort for Rakudo in November     has taken place in the "ng" branch, and will likely be reflected     in the December 2009 release.* Rakudo now supports unpacking of arrays, hashes and objects in     signatures* Rakudo has been updated to use Parrot's new internal calling conventions,     resulting in a slight performance increase.The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors formaking Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute,see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.orgmailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.The next release of Rakudo (#24) is scheduled for December 17, 2009.A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 isavailable in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudodevelopment releases are scheduled to occur two days after eachParrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.Have fun![1] http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39779[2] http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39874

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www.perl.org - redesign
Well, it's taken me 6 weeks of evenings and the odd weekend, but I'm proud to say the new http://www.perl.org/ site has just gone live. This is a complete redesign and content review. Hopefully it's cleaner and easier for people to actually get the information they are after. Whilst I was at it I also implemented this skin for http://dbi.perl.org/ and http://learn.perl.org/ (which needs a lot more loving now you can actually see what's there... not much). My work (http://www.foxtons.co.uk/) have donated some of my time, and also some of the designers on my team's time, without which it would have taken even longer. So enjoy!

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OpenSSH 5.4 released

Damien Miller (djm@) posted to announce@ with the announcement of OpenSSH 5.4. Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new 'netcat mode', many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com.

Please read on for the full release announcement: Read more...
OpenBSD Journal ~Created Tue Mar 9 21:31:19 2010

Loongson port about to make 4.7

Some time ago, we featured an article with a request for hardware. Specifically, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) was looking for a Lemote Yeeloong and Otto Moerbeek (otto@) had recently received one from a donor to work on the Loongson port. Jasper had his Yeelong sponsored by two donors and received his machine less than two weeks after the article was posted.

Quite a few commits have hit the tree (eg. here, here, and here) since then, mostly from otto and miod for src/ and jasper for ports/ and it looks like the 4.7 release will feature an OpenBSD/Loongson port that should work on the Lemote Yeeloong, the Lemote Fuloong and the EMTEC Gdium.

Undeadly followed up on the donations and asked Miod Vallat (miod@), Otto and Jasper about the porting efforts, please read on for their story: Read more...
OpenBSD Journal ~Created Tue Mar 9 21:31:19 2010

OpenBSD keepin' it real at SCALE 8x
Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 8x conference in Los Angeles, that is happening at this moment:

OpenBSD will be represented again this year at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles.

Stop the exhibitor booth and say hi if you're attending, buy some merch, or perhaps ogle our fully clothed booth babe. (or celebrate the fact that we at least have one).

If you live near LA and covet a last minute opportunity to attend the conference, I've got some extra passes to dole out if you'd like to help staff the booth for at least 4 hours on Saturday or Sunday.

For more information contact Seth at 619-630-7384

Ports tree locked for 4.7
Update (Tue Feb 23 20:11:00 CEST 2010): Jasper has unlocked the ports tree for a select group of people for "a bit longer".

On January 12, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) announced that the ports tree has switched in softlock mode, meaning that users were welcome to test and report bugs. Now, on February 17, he announced on the ports@ mailing-list that the ports tree has been locked for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.7 release.

Interview with Linux Journal Virtual Editor Bill Childers

OK Palm, We're Ready for the Foleo Now

Book Excerpt: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

Getting Loopy: Performance Loopers For Linux Musicians

Illegal use of term - five yard penalty

Interview with Linux Journal Associate Editor Shawn Powers

Which Linux distribution do you use most frequently?

Sudo Axes Escalation Glitch

Fixing Broken Images in OpenOffice

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community ~Created Tue Mar 9 22:30:03 2010

Linux Journal Insider - April 2010

BSD Certification Group awards first certified BSD Associates
The BSDA certification was officially launched in February. The candidates took the proctored exams at the SCALE, FOSDEM, or Linux-Tage Chemnitz conferences.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

BSDA "Associate" sysadmin course to be taught in DFW Texas
BSD Unix system administration course focusing on the BSD Certification Group's BSDA (BSD "Associate") Certification exam objectives will be taught April 22 - 25, 2008, in Fort Worth, Texas, USA by Puget Sound Technology.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

The Best of FreeBSD Basics book published
Dru Lavigne's book, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, was recently published by Reed Media Services.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

Answers from Matt Dillon about DragonFly's virtual kernel
Dillon recently implemented his vision of a virtual kernel in DragonFly. This article is is just questions and answers about it.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

Contributors for Admin Book Needed
A collaborative, short-term open source authoring project to quickly write a book covering the basics from the 2005 BSDA Certification Requirements Document was recently started.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

Pkgsrc on non-NetBSD interview
This article contains interviews with five pkgsrc packaging system users (non committers) who use pkgsrc on non-NetBSD systems.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

iXsystems acquires PC-BSD
iXsystems announced this week its acquisition of PC-BSD, a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

NetBSD's Bugathons
NetBSD held two "bugathons" which brought together several developers and non-committers together on two weekends to resolve hundreds of problem reports.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

NewsForge: EuroBSDCon 2005 (highlights)
Another review of EuroBSDCon 2005.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010

ONLamp: Building Binary PC-BSD Packages
This article shows how to make entirely self-contained PC-BSD packages.
BSDnewsletter.com ~Created Tue Mar 9 19:34:08 2010