The Ubuntu Technical Board has decided to remove SPARC from its list of official releases. In an email to the Ubuntu developer list today, Matt Zimmerman said the board had decided that “offically released architectures for Ubuntu 8.04 will be i386 and amd64. The SPARC port will continue to be provided with build infrastructure, and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04 and 7.10 will continue to enable SPARC deployments well into the future, but there will not be an official Ubuntu 8.04 release for SPARC.”

I am relatively new to the Ubuntu PS3 Port team. I joined about a month before Hardy was released when I was told by Gouki that there really wasn’t any development happening on it because it was a community maintained port just like the PowerPC port now is too. I just felt I had to do something - Ubuntu on the PlayStation3 is just too compelling for me to sit back and watch it bit-rot!

The default port for tomcat is 8080 because developers are assuming you may have a apache server set up on port 80. There are two issues with changing the port to 80.

Many that play PC games, such as battle.net, need to be able to set up port triggering. Typical "hardware" routers have the ability to set this up from online menus. However, using a Linux PC to perform your router functions can provide much more control and versatility than can be realized with a "hardware" router.

A first shot at creating a port of the Qt toolkit to Google's Native Client (NaCL) environment allows Qt applications to run as applets within a browser. The port is not yet complete, but it already offers mouse and keyboard support, rudimentary support for the QtGUI and QtCore libraries and several more complex widgets.

How to redirect HTML requests on port 80 of CentOS (i.e. host) to Ubuntu running on VirtualBox (i.e. guest).

We are happy to announce the release of Port Report 1.11. In this release, we have fixed quite a few bugs that were in the previous release. But what we are proud to announce in this release, is the following of EtherChannel aka PortChannel Ports using the Port Agreggation Protocol. Release notes are below....

In order to have TLS work with SquirrelMail you need to start the configuration script at /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl When the script opens choose “Server Settings” and then edit the IMAP port settings and change them from port 143 to port 993.

Intel and Microsoft have announced a new port of Silverlight to Linux, specifically for the Intel-sponsored Moblin operating system running on Atom-powered devices such as netbooks. The port enables Intel to include Silverlight as a supported runtime in the Atom Developer Program, which will feed an iPhone-like App Store.