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Pre-Patched Kickstart Installs Continual development and improvement of software is wonderful, unless you want to keep multiple machines up to date. Fortunately, the solution to installing multiple identical machines can solve this problem too. Ethan McCallum demonstrates how to create your own yum repository for upgrades and new installations. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Perl Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in Perl, PostgreSQL, ncpfs, Squid, cpio, UW IMAP, ChBg, FireHOL, Clam AntiVirus, and f2c.
[O'Reilly Network]
Feather Linux for Firewalls Bootable LiveCDs have made the lives of Linux dabblers easier. They're also suitable for making your life more pleasant while on the go. KIVILCIM Hindistan shows how to use Feather Linux to share a firewalled internet connection in a few easy steps. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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HA-OSCAR: Five Steps to a High-Availability Linux Cluster Clustering, the current thinking in computing, addresses the availability and scaled performance in cost-effective equipment. There are several open source clustering stacks, but HA-OSCAR is one of the few to address high availability with many built-in characteristics that allow continuous service availability. In this tutorial targeted for system administrators, engineers, researchers, and even students interested in leaning about building HA clusters, Ibrahim Haddad provides a step-by-step guide on how to install and build a highly available Linux cluster with HA-OSCAR. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Freevo: Freedom For Your TV PVRs may be the next big thing in home entertainment, but relying on a closed box leaves you few options for customization. The Freevo project is building a platform for developing television-aware applications, whether recording, timeshifting, or general-purpose mayhem. Howard Wen explains the Freevo project and interviews its developers. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Linux and Darwin Kernel Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in the Linux kernel, the Darwin/Mac OS X kernel, iSync, Ethereal, enscript, hylafax, rssh, Xine-lib, mpg123, and Konversation.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Network Installation of Windows Printers from Samba The combination of Samba and CUPS makes network printing on a mixed Linux/Windows LAN easier than ever. You can share Linux printers with Windows clients, and Windows printers with Linux clients. A Linux/Samba/CUPS printer server is reliable and reasonably simple to set up and maintain. Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, shows you how. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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DB2 Problems
Noel Davis looks at problems in DB2, SHOUTcast, nasm, Vilistextum, libtiff, wxGTK2, phpGroupWare, Vim, namazu2, and htmlheadline.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Use Your Digital Camera with Linux With the holidays over, it's time to pause, reflect, and clean up a bit. Why not download the photos from your digital camera? Don't worry, it's easy under Linux. Robert Bernier demonstrates the killer combination of gphoto2, ImageMagick, and digiKam. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Range-Keyed Queries Dan Tow, author of SQL Tuning, ran into a rather interesting dilemma on an Oracle mail group regarding a recurring class of SQL tuning problems. Dan presents the original single-row query problem and shows the route to the most viable solution. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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. [O'Reilly Network]
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Linux AMD64 Kernel Bug
Noel Davis looks at a Linux 2.4 kernel bug on AMD64 machines, problems in Samba, changepassword.cgi, MPlayer, the MIT Kerberos 5 administration library, logcheck, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Konqueror, Debian debmake, Xpdf, and xzgv.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
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. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Excerpt from Linux Cookbook, Part 2 In the second part of this two-part series, Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, offers two more recipes, including tips on running different window managers simultaneously with Xnest and hosting multiple domains with Apache. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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J2SE Woes
Noel Davis looks at problems in the Java 2 Runtime Environment, wget, FreeBSD's procfs and linprocfs, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, AbiWord, Blogtorrent, scponly, rssh, and kfax.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Adding Permissions Using SELinux As an SELinux administrator, one of the most frequent SELinux policy customizations you're likely to perform is adding permissions to coax the security engine into accepting an operation. In today's excerpt from SELinux, author Bill McCarty considers an actual situation based on Fedora Core 2's SELinux implementation and shows how it's resolved. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Linux Music Blossoms with Rosegarden No kidding: many software geeks are also music geeks. It should be no surprise that free software music programs have started to rival their commercial counterparts. Howard Wen walks through Rosegarden, a Linux-based music sequencer and scoring package. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
The Watchful Eye of FAM If you've ever written code waiting for a file to appear or change, you've likely done the select/sleep loop dance. How'd you like to never again experience that? SGI's File Alteration Monitor API can help. Ethan McCallum demonstrates how to watch files and directories on Linux, Irix, and probably your other favorite, Unix. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Excerpt from Linux Cookbook, Part 1 Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, has three tasty recipes to share in this week's excerpt. Whether you want tips on installing a program for easy uninstall, killing user processes, or better logins without passwords, Carla poses the problems and offers solutions. Too bad not all recipes can be this clear, quick, and painless. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
True Stories of Knoppix Rescues A battle-hardened sysadmin shares his near-death tales ... of Knoppix rescue. Kyle Rankin, author of Knoppix Hacks, is a true Knoppix veteran with endless stories of broken systems and machines in distress. In this article, he shares a few of his favorites, complete with outcomes and weapons of choice. Not for the faint of heart. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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ELF Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in the Linux kernel, sudo, TWiki, phpBB, cscope, Cyrus IMAP, Bugzilla, ProZilla, unarj, libxml2, and fetch.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Feather Linux: The Swiss Army Knife of LiveCDs Bootable LiveCDs have made the lives of Linux dabblers easier. They're also good for administrators and people facing system recovery woes. Among LiveCDs, Feather Linux is a lean and powerful tool. KIVILCIM Hindistan demonstrates how it can make backing up and restoring partitions easy. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Advanced Linux Installations and Upgrades with Kickstart Unix is beautifully scriptable. That applies to installations and upgrades, too. Fedora's Kickstart utility can automate installing entire labs of computers, installing custom RPMs, and even upgrading old versions. Ethan McCallum explains advanced Kickstart techniques. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Media-Tool Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in libgd, mtink, zip, ruby, Samba, freeamp, Kaffeine and gxine, Portage, zgv, shadow, and BNC.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Trouble in iptables
Noel Davis looks at problems in Linux iptables, OpenSSL, PuTTY, rssh, Quake II Server, libmagick6, HP Serviceguard, Xpdf, FreeRadius, WVTFTPD, GNU tftp, and pppd.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
A Firm Foundation for the Linux Desktop Nearly every advance of Linux, open source, and free software on the desktop owes a debt to the X Window System. Too often, this debt goes unacknowledged. With the birth of X.org earlier this year, a foundational but once-stagnant project prepares to improve itself and its code to help free desktops everywhere. Andy Oram reports. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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mod_ssl Problems
Noel Davis looks at problems in mod_ssl, LibTIFF, mpg123, LessTif, the Cyrus SASL library, MySQL, CUPS, ProFTPD, and the Squid web proxy cache.
[O'Reilly Network]
PC Hacks for Linux PC Hacks author Jim Aspinwall handpicks two Linux-specific hacks to share from his new book. Whether Linux just won't boot or it isn't as zippy as you'd expect, help is merely a hack away. Jim will teach you how to recover your system's boot-ability as well as how to test and optimize Linux's settings for the best hard drive performance. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Storming the Microsoft Edifice In the battle for open source and open standards on user desktops, applications such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox are stealthily winning small skirmishes. Sam Hiser describes the situation in terms of Monty Python's "Trojan rabbit." [LinuxDevCenter.com]
A Day in the Life of Dave the Dollar In the world of Linux financial software, GnuCash stands out as a powerful but esoteric project. For users who never learned financial bookkeeping (and many who did), double-entry accounting is a difficult subject to master before using the program. As Breckin Loggins explains, though, it's much easier than it first appears. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
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Temporary-File Race Conditions
Noel Davis looks at a collection of temporary-file race conditions, and problems in Samba, GNU sharutils, JRun, Subversion, imlib, IBM AIX ctstrtcasd, YahooPOPs, and OpenOffice.org.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
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