Regarding RCU, no SCO don't have a patent on RCU (as I'm sure you know:-). IBM do. It was invented at Sequent, and patented by Sequent. As IBM bought Sequent in 1999, they own the patent on RCU, and can do whatever they please with it.
According to SCO, anything added to the Unix AT&T sold IBM - whoever invented it - is their property.
I know IBM wouldn't have been dumb enough to sign such a contract (yup, its a breach-of-contract case), but thought I'd point that the origin of the code doesn't matter according to SCO.
most behaviors are easily modified there if you're as hardcore as you proclaim to be.
Where do I claim to be hardcore?
And if you don't like GNOME's design goals, then fine
Its not a matter of my own opinion - its a matter of our clients. I work for Red Hat in Australia and I can attest most of our clients don't like spatial mode. I'd like to have it either explained better (welcome to Gnome 2.6! We've included a new spatial mode! Its better for X reason! If you don't like it though, do Y!) or changed by default.
As one can imagine, my opinions are my own and don't necessarily represent my employers.
It doesn't matter if spatial nautilus is good or bad. Overriding people's existing preferences without asking them is always bad.
If you're being paid to work on Gnome for a business, do more of what that businesses clients want. Not less. Currently, most Red Hat staff/customers (who aren't Gnome developers) don't like spatial nautilus. A challenge for the Gnome devs is to either convince those people otherwise (by making it better or explaining its usefullness, not overriding people preferences). If they can't, it shouldn't be the default for EL4.
I agree to a point. IBM does not fully embrace open source, however. They sell plenty of products that do not include access to the source code.
Are you sure you understand Open Source? Open Source isn't about access to the source code. There's many apps - Pine, QMail, and Windows, for example - for which source code is available but which most definitely does not meet the Open Source Definition.
Linux has its own standards - the Linux Standards Base includes the FHS, Glibc, bash (I think) and GNU coreutils.
It might not be portable to non-Linux OSs, but it'll safely fail over. I'd look at your POV as comparable to saying one shouldn't use finder in OSX as thats not POSIX either.
White is the hyperlink color. Clicking the big white link named after the article takes me to the same page.
The phrase we've got other stuff lined up inside would imply the link goes to the other stuff. The url for it seems like it'd show an index of all their linux content. But the word 'inside' actually shows the article.
The default install is limited to localhost. If you want to use it remotely, use SSH. You get a polished GUI web based config tool, without needing X on your server at all.
That said, personally I have no problem with running X on my servers. It doesn't require much RAM, has no more impact on stability than any other app, and can make troubleshooting much faster.
Most people don't realize that up2date (as of EL3 / FC1) can talk to four types of repositories: RHN, Yum, Apt, or Dir.
These are configured in/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.
You can have as many sources as you want, of each type (apart from RHN, since its systems management stuff means you'd ponly want a machine subscribed to one RHN server). Dependencies can be resolved between any repository.
Dir repositories are particularly neat - just a dir full of packages. You don't need to make indexes like you would with yum or apt. Just mention the dir in your sources file.
up2date -i foo Downloads and installs package foo and all its dependencies.
up2date -u Updates the whole system.
up2date --showall Shows all the packages available.
I set up a sudo account to let a normal admin * install software * administer networking * administer users * change ACLs of existing files
Then set the root password to something random. An admin doesn't need R/W permission to/bin,/dev, etc - that's for the packages to install stuff in.
Hence rm / -rf (yes, that's the proper way to rm) won't work. Cause the admin doesn't have the root password and its set to random garbage. Anything they want to do they can use sudo for.
Could just be my take on it, but isn't that the whole point of Fedora ? more a less the "unstable branch" for RHEL ?
No - though that's a widely held misconception. RHEL exists because Red Hat's customers want to install a Linux distro and run it for five years without having to install anything but the odd security update. Its binary compatibility is stable.
Fedora is stable too - in the reliable sense. As with the old Red Hat Linux, you might have to go get a new JRE when it includes a cool new threading model. But Fedora should, and does work, and Red Hat staff are paid to fix bugs in it - otherwise those bugs will affect the next RHEL release.
Linux is the kernel/me compares contents of kernel.org and linux.org,.com, and.net./me then checks whether the Linux Standards Base refers to a kernel, or more than that/me then checks the usage of Linux by 99.9% of its users.
'Linux' stopped being a kernel ages ago. Stop being a pedantic geek and correcting folk.
Is there anything that suggests people using Debian would likely use RH externally, more than vice versa? Or that Debian users are more likely to disable version numbering?
Unless there is, I don't see what the problem is with the figures.
To paint a picture you have to use broad brush strokes.
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Regarding RCU, no SCO don't have a patent on RCU (as I'm sure you know :-). IBM do. It was invented at Sequent, and patented by Sequent. As IBM bought Sequent in 1999, they own the patent on RCU, and can do whatever they please with it.
According to SCO, anything added to the Unix AT&T sold IBM - whoever invented it - is their property.
I know IBM wouldn't have been dumb enough to sign such a contract (yup, its a breach-of-contract case), but thought I'd point that the origin of the code doesn't matter according to SCO.
most behaviors are easily modified there if you're as hardcore as you proclaim to be.
Where do I claim to be hardcore?
And if you don't like GNOME's design goals, then fine
Its not a matter of my own opinion - its a matter of our clients. I work for Red Hat in Australia and I can attest most of our clients don't like spatial mode. I'd like to have it either explained better (welcome to Gnome 2.6! We've included a new spatial mode! Its better for X reason! If you don't like it though, do Y!) or changed by default.
As one can imagine, my opinions are my own and don't necessarily represent my employers.
If you're being paid to work on Gnome for a business, do more of what that businesses clients want. Not less. Currently, most Red Hat staff/customers (who aren't Gnome developers) don't like spatial nautilus. A challenge for the Gnome devs is to either convince those people otherwise (by making it better or explaining its usefullness, not overriding people preferences). If they can't, it shouldn't be the default for EL4.
I agree to a point. IBM does not fully embrace open source, however. They sell plenty of products that do not include access to the source code.
Are you sure you understand Open Source? Open Source isn't about access to the source code. There's many apps - Pine, QMail, and Windows, for example - for which source code is available but which most definitely does not meet the Open Source Definition.
One possible ASP.net (1.1) solution
Server: Apache
Module: mod_mono
IDE: Monodevelop
All OSS last time I checked. That's pretty samn similar to PHP, and a whole lot better than JSP.
Or better yet, orkut.us, where the minority USA folk can go. :^)
Linux has its own standards - the Linux Standards Base includes the FHS, Glibc, bash (I think) and GNU coreutils.
It might not be portable to non-Linux OSs, but it'll safely fail over. I'd look at your POV as comparable to saying one shouldn't use finder in OSX as thats not POSIX either.
Linux isn't Unix. It's its replacement.
Maybe it's Slashdotted. All I get is a full screen window with a white background and black area down the side. No text, pictures, or animations.
Point taken.
What editor / IDE do you use in Linux? How do you find Monodevelop comares with VS, if you use it?
White is the hyperlink color. Clicking the big white link named after the article takes me to the same page.
The phrase we've got other stuff lined up inside would imply the link goes to the other stuff. The url for it seems like it'd show an index of all their linux content. But the word 'inside' actually shows the article.
Unless your rpm command is compromised
I thought this wouldd have been obvious, but the rpm binary works fine off read-only media (just as the database does).
Benefits versus disadvantages. In the rather rare case I have a serious disk error or messed up filesystem table, I can use a rescue CD.
There is absolutely no need to have an interactive account with unlimited permission.
As the other guy said, Webmin doesn't need X.
The default install is limited to localhost. If you want to use it remotely, use SSH. You get a polished GUI web based config tool, without needing X on your server at all.
That said, personally I have no problem with running X on my servers. It doesn't require much RAM, has no more impact on stability than any other app, and can make troubleshooting much faster.
Thanks for your well justified technical opinion.
Why is comparing the contents of files on hard disk to one off-line recorded database different to another?
This functionality (--dbpath) was added to RPM with the aim of eliminating the need for Tripwire.
I think rm -rf / is right... [ra@gentoo ~] $ rm --help Usage: rm [OPTION]... FILE...
Yes, but rm FILE [OPTIONS] is much safer. Compare hitting enter to early when deleting a directory.
Man pages are generally unmaintained. Eg, man resolv.conf says the file is generally unnecessary as most machines have a DNS server installed on them.
Got more info or a link for that encrypted swap stuff?
Most people don't realize that up2date (as of EL3 / FC1) can talk to four types of repositories: RHN, Yum, Apt, or Dir.
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.
These are configured in
You can have as many sources as you want, of each type (apart from RHN, since its systems management stuff means you'd ponly want a machine subscribed to one RHN server). Dependencies can be resolved between any repository.
Dir repositories are particularly neat - just a dir full of packages. You don't need to make indexes like you would with yum or apt. Just mention the dir in your sources file.
up2date -i foo
Downloads and installs package foo and all its dependencies.
up2date -u
Updates the whole system.
up2date --showall
Shows all the packages available.
I set up a sudo account to let a normal admin
/bin, /dev, etc - that's for the packages to install stuff in.
* install software
* administer networking
* administer users
* change ACLs of existing files
Then set the root password to something random. An admin doesn't need R/W permission to
Hence rm / -rf (yes, that's the proper way to rm) won't work. Cause the admin doesn't have the root password and its set to random garbage. Anything they want to do they can use sudo for.
RPM records the MD5sum, change time, permissions, and a bunch of other stuff on every file it installs.
/var/lib/rpm.
/mnt/cdrom
This is saved into the RPM database in
You can use RPM as an IDS by backing up the database to a read-only media and then use, for example:
rpm -V coreutils procps net-tools --dbpath
To see if someone's installed a root kit (if someone has, they'll have to at least modify top, ps, and netstat, which are included in these packages).
Unlike tripwire, you're not forever having to update policy files.
Could just be my take on it, but isn't that the whole point of Fedora ? more a less the "unstable branch" for RHEL ?
No - though that's a widely held misconception. RHEL exists because Red Hat's customers want to install a Linux distro and run it for five years without having to install anything but the odd security update. Its binary compatibility is stable.
Fedora is stable too - in the reliable sense. As with the old Red Hat Linux, you might have to go get a new JRE when it includes a cool new threading model. But Fedora should, and does work, and Red Hat staff are paid to fix bugs in it - otherwise those bugs will affect the next RHEL release.
Linux is the kernel /me compares contents of kernel.org and linux.org, .com, and .net. /me then checks whether the Linux Standards Base refers to a kernel, or more than that /me then checks the usage of Linux by 99.9% of its users.
'Linux' stopped being a kernel ages ago. Stop being a pedantic geek and correcting folk.
Is there anything that suggests people using Debian would likely use RH externally, more than vice versa? Or that Debian users are more likely to disable version numbering?
Unless there is, I don't see what the problem is with the figures.
To paint a picture you have to use broad brush strokes.
Commercial softwate tends to be very well maintained - especially if its open source.
Heya guys,
I work for Red Hat teaching their stuff now, but before that I wrote and taught my own training course.
All of the training materials, including the full courseware, is available free from here (burn the contents of the whole lna4 dir to a CD).
I own copyright for it, you're licensed to use it under the FDL.
Mike MacCana