On August 3 Nexenta hosted a conference call to announce a new open source project called "Illumos." Still several days short of the deadline set by the OpenSolaris governing board to Oracle, perhaps this announcement makes it all moot.
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The best way to switch to GNU Systems: Navigating Your Projects in Emacs
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"...The first thing I tried was a method called find-file-in-project. It was originally implemented by Phil Hagelberg as part of his “Another Ruby on Rails Mode” (arorem) and then also ported over to the current Rinari Is Not a Rails IDE. Basically, it indexes all the files in a “project” and then provides a nice interactive completing read to switch between them..."
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Installing A Web, Email, MySQL DB Cluster (Mirror) On Debian 5 With ISPConfig 3
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This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 5 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. GlusterFS will be used to mirror the data between the servers and ISPConfig for mirroring the configuration files.
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Puppet – server management made easy
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If you have more than a handful of servers, maintaining them by hand becomes a tedious task. Of course, you can automate this with shell scripts, but this is an ad hoc solution. Puppet can help you to reach a more consistent way of managing your servers. Here's how…
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Prototyping with Pencil (FireFox add-on)
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User interface prototyping is supposed to be a creative discipline, where the tools don’t get in the way, so you can place your ideas on the screen just like you would draw them freehand on the back of a napkin. Up until recently, there was not a high quality open source UI prototyper. But,those days are in the past, though, thanks to Pencil.
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What's new in Linux 2.6.35
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Measures to support the power saving mechanisms of AMD graphics chips, network code optimisations for multi-core processors, features for de-fragmenting the working memory and an improved support of the power management and turbo features offered by modern processors are among the highlights of the new kernel version
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AppArmor Is Going Into The Linux 2.6.36 Kernel
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James Morris has outlined a preview of the security subsystem changes he is currently carrying in his security-testing-next branch of the Linux kernel that he plans to have Linus Torvalds pull into the next kernel development cycle for Linux 2.6.36. The big change in the kernel security world is that AppArmor is being planned for integration into the Linux 2.6.36 kernel.
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Mesh Networking using OLSR Protocol on GNU Systems with Free Software
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"For viafrica.org I studied the possibility of setting up a wireless mesh network using ubuntu..."
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Setting Up OpenVPN on a DD-WRT Router, Part 2
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This is the second installment of a two-part series on setting up the OpenVPN server on DD-WRT router firmware. This is a great way to set up secure connections to your network for road-warriors or to remotely connect offices. This a cost-effective solution can support a dozen or two VPN users.
Read more »Modify NoScript so it can detect and block nontrivial nonfree JavaScript code
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"Richard Stallman is looking for someone to modify NoScript so it can detect and block nontrivial nonfree JavaScript code..."
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Linux-libre 2.6.35 & 2.6.34-1 Released
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«Linux-libre is a project that aims to publish and maintain modified versions of the Linux kernel that only include free software...» — via Linux-libre, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia —
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Open source web apps often insecure, new tool discovers
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Security company Qualys has released a new open source tool, 'BlindElephant', which can accurately fingerprint web applications down to version level in order to better manage the security issues which now plague such software. According to the company, the need for such a tool is pressing.
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GCC 4.5.1 Released
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Rakudo Star - A first usable Perl 6
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A first usable Perl 6 implementation has been released in the form of Rakudo Star. Aimed at the early adopters of Perl 6, it is not yet complete
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