A few points: That is the ipad app, which is just a client that was uploaded yesterday. There are already ubuntu packages for most of the stack Most of the code is already in production either at NASA or Rackspace. Could.com is joining and adopting openstack. Perhaps more research before posting is in order.
What a load of misinformation. Both in the article and in the comments. Reading the comments, one would think that the core Ubuntu repositories were compromised, and that Canonical tried to hide it.
This was published in the Ubuntu Weekly News before it hit slashdot and Canonical held a public meeting about it. The freakin' article links to an official Ubuntu wiki.
This had nothing to do with the Security at Canonical, or Ubuntu Server, but everything to do with the processes around Canonical sponsorship of community servers.
Full Disclosure: I work for Canonical, but know nothing about this issue, except what has been made public. I speak only for myself and do not represent the opinions of Canonical.
The "Featured Sites" are not necessarily ads. If you serch for "linux iso" linuxiso.org is a "Top Pick" and a "Featured Site" and I assure you we would never pay M$ a dollar. WE need to be careful not to jump to the wrong conclusion. I am sure some of the featured sites are ads, but not all.
Actually, It's not those scripts I'm talking about. I wrote a ldap library in python to handle all the ldap functions at my current job. Plus I remember writing shell scripts to add and modify users at gator.net. Did You rewrite those? I can barely remember that far back. I hope all is going well for you.
Work hard at becoming a good programmer. A good programmer can learn any toolkit. Game are developed by teams of people, so learn to work well with others.
How much does an internet customer go for these days? Before the dot.com blues they were going for $200+. Maybe at reduced rates MSN has enough cash to just buy all internet users and get the assimilation over with quickly.
In an enterprise environment all of your options are costly, if you abide by the licenses. I certainly do not count NT as an enterprise environment. That is what we are talking about enterprise level DB's. On an enterprise level DB/2 and Oracle are very expensive. In a startup if you could pay $5,000 for you informix licenses and when you need it move up to a more expensive DB/2 product that would be of great benefit. In most large enterprises Mysql and Postgres would not be suitable.
I think MYSQL suffers from the same problem as Linux. Someone plays with it a couple of months and then markets themselves as an "expert". Unqualified admins can make a good product look much worse than it actually is. I don't think anyone could play with DB/2 for coulpe of months and get away with calling themselves an "expert".
DB/2 is very expensive, on par if not more pricy then Oracle. I think they are trying to have mid-priced DB. You get the great IBM support and some of the power (probably with an easy migration path to DB/2) for a much lower price. It should give IBM an advantage over Oracle which, as far as I know has no entry-level priced database.
Rick
We will be upgrading when we switch machines. I want to make several apache changes but I need more ram in the machine before I increase Apache's memory footprint.
I'm an apache admin and developer for a living, but unfortunatly have too little time for my own site.
linuxiso is in no way a commercial site. It is a hobby and service to the free software community. We would just like to find a way to not let the site drain us dry. If this was a commercial enterprise we would have sold ads long ago.
We already do this, sort of. We check a list of mirrors, find an open one and connect you to it. At the very beginning we hosted the iso's but we quickly saturated 3 t1's and had to stop. Just serving html and images we use around 30Gb of bandwidth a month increasing about 10% a month. Its all being hosted on a colocated raq with a K6-300 and 128 mbs of ram. We have developed a new site that we can't put up until we have a higher powered machine, hopefully in a month or two.
15% is a little much in my opinion. Would you donate to a good site using paypal or any other service? I never have, but this is what I may end up asking others to do. I feel like such a hypocrite
I have been funding my website out of my pocket, but due to growth this is going to be impossible soon. Plus, I want very much to keep the site in the good standing with all of the users, most of witch are open source advocates like myself. Colocating is pretty expensive and prices don't seem to be coming down. I would love to make the site self sufficient without the need for annoying ads or blatent commercialism. Any Ideas?
Rick
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A few points:
That is the ipad app, which is just a client that was uploaded yesterday.
There are already ubuntu packages for most of the stack
Most of the code is already in production either at NASA or Rackspace.
Could.com is joining and adopting openstack.
Perhaps more research before posting is in order.
What a load of misinformation. Both in the article and in the comments. Reading the comments, one would think that the core Ubuntu repositories were compromised, and that Canonical tried to hide it.
This was published in the Ubuntu Weekly News before it hit slashdot and Canonical held a public meeting about it. The freakin' article links to an official Ubuntu wiki.
This had nothing to do with the Security at Canonical, or Ubuntu Server, but everything to do with the processes around Canonical sponsorship of community servers.
Full Disclosure: I work for Canonical, but know nothing about this issue, except what has been made public. I speak only for myself and do not represent the opinions of Canonical.
Rick
The "Featured Sites" are not necessarily ads. If you serch for "linux iso" linuxiso.org is a "Top Pick" and a "Featured Site" and I assure you we would never pay M$ a dollar. WE need to be careful not to jump to the wrong conclusion. I am sure some of the featured sites are ads, but not all.
linuxiso.org is a featured site. We did not pay M$. Our animosity for them runs deep. I'm sort of surprised we are listed at all.
I do agree, however google is the way to go.
Linuxiso.org is a featured site. We even get a little MS butterfly.C HECKED&FORM= MSNH&v=1&q=linuxiso
http://search.msn.com/results.asp?RS=
Actually, It's not those scripts I'm talking about. I wrote a ldap library in python to handle all the ldap functions at my current job. Plus I remember writing shell scripts to add and modify users at gator.net. Did You rewrite those? I can barely remember that far back. I hope all is going well for you.
Rick
I had to roll most of my own admin scripts. There is a great java based browser/editor though.
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap/
It is the best thing out there as far as I can tell.
Rick
Work hard at becoming a good programmer. A good programmer can learn any toolkit. Game are developed by teams of people, so learn to work well with others.
How much does an internet customer go for these days? Before the dot.com blues they were going for $200+. Maybe at reduced rates MSN has enough cash to just buy all internet users and get the assimilation over with quickly.
In an enterprise environment all of your options are costly, if you abide by the licenses. I certainly do not count NT as an enterprise environment. That is what we are talking about enterprise level DB's. On an enterprise level DB/2 and Oracle are very expensive. In a startup if you could pay $5,000 for you informix licenses and when you need it move up to a more expensive DB/2 product that would be of great benefit. In most large enterprises Mysql and Postgres would not be suitable.
I think MYSQL suffers from the same problem as Linux. Someone plays with it a couple of months and then markets themselves as an "expert". Unqualified admins can make a good product look much worse than it actually is. I don't think anyone could play with DB/2 for coulpe of months and get away with calling themselves an "expert".
DB/2 is very expensive, on par if not more pricy then Oracle. I think they are trying to have mid-priced DB. You get the great IBM support and some of the power (probably with an easy migration path to DB/2) for a much lower price. It should give IBM an advantage over Oracle which, as far as I know has no entry-level priced database.
Rick
We will be upgrading when we switch machines. I want to make several apache changes but I need more ram in the machine before I increase Apache's memory footprint.
I'm an apache admin and developer for a living, but unfortunatly have too little time for my own site.
linuxiso is in no way a commercial site. It is a hobby and service to the free software community. We would just like to find a way to not let the site drain us dry. If this was a commercial enterprise we would have sold ads long ago.
Comprendo
We are at Valueweb. We pay over $350 per month for that server.
We already do this, sort of. We check a list of mirrors, find an open one and connect you to it. At the very beginning we hosted the iso's but we quickly saturated 3 t1's and had to stop. Just serving html and images we use around 30Gb of bandwidth a month increasing about 10% a month. Its all being hosted on a colocated raq with a K6-300 and 128 mbs of ram. We have developed a new site that we can't put up until we have a higher powered machine, hopefully in a month or two.
Rick
15% is a little much in my opinion. Would you donate to a good site using paypal or any other service? I never have, but this is what I may end up asking others to do. I feel like such a hypocrite
I have been funding my website out of my pocket, but due to growth this is going to be impossible soon. Plus, I want very much to keep the site in the good standing with all of the users, most of witch are open source advocates like myself. Colocating is pretty expensive and prices don't seem to be coming down. I would love to make the site self sufficient without the need for annoying ads or blatent commercialism. Any Ideas?
Rick