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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 8.65 MB Status: 6 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-06-19 19:53:15

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Category: GeeXboX Size: 8.82 MB Status: 9 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-06-19 14:38:27

Source: damnsmall

Robert Shingledecker has announced the availability of the first release candidate of Damn Small Linux 3.4, a business card-size live CD mini-distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. From the changelog: "Updated MurgaLua to v0.4.1; added libXft.so.2; added acpid, use boot option 'acpid'; added bcrypt, dropped des; improved emelfm for .

Source: Linux Today

Lone Wolves: "After two full days of waving dead chickens at [Microsoft Active Directory], trying to make any sense of it's irrational behavior I would love nothing more than to pick it up and throw it off the roof of our building "

Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "Apache Pluto is the reference implementation for the Portlet specification. It isn't a full-fledged portal server itself "

Source: Linux Today

/home/liquidat: "After the last post about Nepomuk-KDE many people discussed the pros and cons of a central storage of meta data "

Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "The Spring of 2007 can be safely named Linux Spring in my humble opinion. We have been witnessing several important releases in a last few weeks "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.org: "I have been using Fedora (formerly known as Fedora Core) since the first version came out. Following a bad experience with Fedora Core 2, I stuck to the odd numbered versions--invoking the Star Trek movie rule in reverse "

Source: Linux Today

ArsGeek: "What is a Zonbox exactly? It's a solid state Linux computer, which means it has no moving parts--not even a fan "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The first, highly-anticipated Linux Collaboration Summit is history "

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Linux Log: Support, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where your experience with the matter lies, made the list as a
'barrier to adoption.'

Source: Linux Today

SunMink: "One of the running themes of Free/open source software has been how easily drivers for chipsets in old (and often not-so-old) hardware can be created "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The trouble with the worker's paradise idea is that it takes a dictator to make it happen--meaning that the happier the workers and useful idiots proclaim themselves, the worse off they are likely to actually be "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "If you like Linux for the long list of supported hardware but Solaris for the advanced new ZFS filesystem, a new development project might have a happy surprise for you "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Users of VideoLAN's VLC cross-platform media player are strongly advised to upgrade to the just-released version 0.8.6c, which fixes 'a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins '"

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Linux was selected for a NASA experiment aimed at proving the feasibility of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware and software for scientific space missions "

Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "Novell Inc. claims it will become the first vendor to offer a supported solution for Xen virtual machine guests, with its release next month of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "As usual, he is able to make the impossible sound absolutely convincingly plausible. It's a gift, without a doubt. Of course, that's until you snap out of the cloud of acceptance he puts you in, and listen to Novell's Michael Jacobs "

Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "'I would love to get either NVIDIA or ATI to actually give us the specs on the drivers we want or let's just reverse engineer everything and do it ourselves '"

Source: Linux Today

vnunet: "The Linux Foundation has formed a Green Linux initiative to focus on reducing the open source operating system's power consumption "

Source: Linux Today

Salon: "At a Government Web Managers Workshop held in Washington, D.C., in March, Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski, a corporate communications staffer for the World Bank, delivered a presentation about the challenges and possibilities inherent in 'social media '"

Source: Linux Today

Ruminations on the Digital Realm: "'As far as patent protection is concerned, we are not great fans of software patents which we consider as counter productive '"

Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "The Linux faithful might be staring down the barrel of another round of Microsoft's legal taunts, but at last week's Linux Foundation Summit, the reaction was more ho-hum than oh-no "

Source: Linux Today

NetworkWorld: "Novell on Monday shipped the first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise 10 that includes virtualization, management and security improvements "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: "Red Hat, the largest Linux vendor, and Ubuntu-maker Canonical have both rejected calls from Microsoft to forge a deal similar to the one the Redmond giant signed with Linux distributors Novell, Xandros, and Linspire "

Source: Linux Today

The Ithaca Journal: "In 2001, Eric Skalwold was nearly finished installing Windows XP onto his computer. Then he read the end-user agreement and decided he couldn't consent to those terms "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "SysMaster used embedded Linux to create a four-line IP (Internet protocol) video phone with built-in PBX and audio/video playback capabilities "

Source: Linux Today

Debian Administration: "Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) developed a series of 64-bit extensions to their 32-bit RISC-based Intel IA-32 (i386) compatible processors "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Vlogger is a little tool with which you can write Apache logs broken down by virtual hosts and days "

Source: Linux Today

About.com: "I have been using my Inspiron E1505 running Ubuntu Linux for a full week now, and it's been a pleasure "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Ten years ago, when Metadot founder and CEO Daniel Guermeur was working for a large technology company, he discovered that the Web-based content management systems he was developing were too complicated for his customers "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Sometimes it can be handy to set up your own repository to prevent from downloading the remote repository over and over again "

Source: Linux Today

VentureCake: "Here's a list of damn useful commands you haven't heard before "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

lymeca writes "LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incarnation in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Kurtz'sKompund passed us an article detailing another loss in Microsoft's licensing push: Red Hat has summarily rejected Redmond's offer of an alliance. The article also touches on Ubuntu's rejection of the same offer, which we discussed this past weekend. ZDNet reports on comments from Mark Shuttleworth and the Red Hat organization, with Shuttleworth stating "Allegations of 'infringement of unspecified patents' carry no weight whatsoever. We don't think they have any legal merit, and they are no incentive for us to work with Microsoft on any of the wonderful things we could do together." Red Hat was even more blunt, stating the organization refused to pay an "innovation tax" to the Microsoft. "Red Hat said there would be no such deal. Referring to previous statements distancing itself from Microsoft, the company insisted: 'Red Hat's standpoint has not changed.' The company referenced a statement written when Microsoft revealed it was partnering with Novell, saying that its position remained unaltered. Red Hat director of corporate communications Leigh Day added: 'We continue to believe that open source and the innovation it represents should not be subject to an unsubstantiated tax that lacks transparency.' Many open-source followers argue that Red Hat, as the largest Linux vendor, would have a lot to lose from partnering with Microsoft."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Linux takes a major step forward in making printers easy to use and making Linux distributions easy for printer vendors to support.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Novell's first service patch to its SUSE Linux desktop and server 10 lines brings better virtualization, security and application improvements.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

More than ten years after the debut of the
Apache HTTP Server, and after a number of
years of maintaining the status quo, the latest version of the
world’s most popular Web server contains many exciting new
developments, with even more novelties promised in coming
releases.

Source: Linux DevCenter

I use RT as a problem-ticketing system (or at least, I encourage people to use it). Since I don’t manage my own mail server, I’ve been putting off the mail gateway part of this for a while, but finally got it working yesterday.

The mail handler is rt-mailgate, and the basic setup is explained in the man page. In your /etc/aliases file, add the line:

rt-email: "|/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue General --action correspond --url https://localhost/rt

If using exim, you also need to edit exim4.conf.template to include the line:

pipe_transport = address_pipe

somewhere outside the SYSTEM_ALIASES_PIPE_TRANSPORT block. Run update-exim4.conf and restart exim.


More after the jump…


The first problem I encountered after this point was that I was getting a 401 Error from the webserver when I tried a test message from the command line. I use Kerberos/LDAP within my systems, and have RT set up to use Kerberos auth, so spent a while experimenting with that. Turns out it’s more straightforward than that: the mail stuff is within a section of RT entitled “NoAuth”, which means pretty much what it says on the tin. If you have some kind of authorisation for the RT website, you need to exclude the NoAuth sections from that. So the relevant section of your Apache config should look a bit like this:


Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any



Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any



# Whatever auth you want to have here (mine is Kerberos)




After this it worked fine from the command line, so the final part was to set up a cronjob to run fetchmail appropriately (if you have your own mail server you can do this differently - e.g. set /etc/aliases on the mailserver to direct straight to the webserver address). My fetchmail config looks like this:

poll mailserver.example.com protocol IMAP username rt-email password PWD smtpaddress example.com
mda '/usr/bin/rt-mailgate --queue General --action correspond --url https://localhost/rt'

and the crontab line (run on the webserver) is:

*/2 * * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/cron.d/rt-fetchmail.conf /var/log/rtmail.log 2&1



And that’s it - all works beautifully now.