Eugenia Loli Archive

FreeBSD Project Discussions on SysInstall, FS

Submitted by Assad Maseed 2004-12-07 FreeBSD 41 Comments

It is interesting to note that FreeBSD developers are giving consideration to phasing out sysinstall in favor of a new install program for FreeBSD. A Journaling FS like ReiserFS also seems to be on the cards for future FreeBSD releases, Kerneltrap reports.

No XP SP2 Security Fixes for Win2k

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-07 Windows 36 Comments

Despite recent calls from customers and analysts, none of the security fixes built into Windows XP SP2 will be back-ported to Windows 2000, still in use by a majority of enterprises. But what about those organizations that can't afford to upgrade?

Thunderbird 1.0 Unleashed

Submitted by Brandon Philips 2004-12-07 Mozilla, Gecko 44 Comments

Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client rate it here. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, builtin RSS support, privacy protection and much more. Elsewhere, Evolution 2.0.3 was released too (rate it here).

Sun And Microsoft Aim For Single Sign-On

Submitted by Tudy 2004-12-06 Internet 14 Comments

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems last week issued a progress report on the technical truce the companies called this year but gave little indication of what specific fixes they would devise to address customers' problems.

Clusters with Linux and Ruby

Submitted by riffraff 2004-12-06 General Development 7 Comments

LinuxJournal has a nifty article on how to build simple clusters with Ruby, based on real world experience from the National Geophysical Data Center. Article here

Two Solaris articles in Dec-2004 Sys Admin Magazine

Submitted by TTF 2004-12-06 Solaris 9 Comments

The articles are: Q&A with the Solaris 10 Engineers and Solaris 10 Privileges.

Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official is available for download (CD+DVD)

Submitted by Georgio 2004-12-06 Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 50 Comments

The 10.1 Official is now available as CDs or DVD on a number of FTP mirrors and through Bittorrent. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official new features are available online.

FreeSBIE 1.1 is released

Submitted by Berdt van der Lingen 2004-12-06 FreeBSD 33 Comments

As you might already know, FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive. Today, FreeSBIE 1.1 is released.

Is Your Enterprise Ready for Linux?

Submitted by Jason Jones 2004-12-06 Novell and Ximian 12 Comments

The guys at Novell have released a rather interesting article which helps businesses know whether they're ready to make the switch to Linux. It gives some steps to analyzing, evaluating, creating a road map, and putting a plan together when enterprises consider the switch.

Review: The LC2100 LinuxCertified Laptop

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-06 Hardware 63 Comments

LinuxCertified.com offers a solution for the users who require ultimate mobility: the LC2100 laptop loaded with the Linux of your choice. For more info and screenshots/images, read more.

Fedora Core 3: A whole new level

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-06 Fedora Core 53 Comments

Here's yet another review of Fedora Core 3, this time at NewsForge.

A view at Crux-PPC Evolution

Submitted by Sandor 2004-12-06 Linux 21 Comments

A view with screenshots at the first release of Crux-PPC Evolution, a new extended version of the Crux lightweight distribution.

Understanding The Facade Pattern; Introduction to the UML

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-05 General Development 31 Comments

The Facade pattern puts up a new interface — that is, a facade — in front of the original system. In this sample book chapter, you'll learn when to apply it, and how to do so. Elsewhere, this chapter provides an overview of Unified Modeling Language (UML), a graphical language for modeling businesses, software applications, and system architectures.

Managing Active Directory OUs, Users, and Groups

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-05 Windows No Comments

The Users & Computers snap-in for Active Directory enables you to create Organizational Units (OUs) to set up an OUT Tree in the domain. This chapter coves setting up and managing OUs.

Two Reviews of SUSE Linux 9.2

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-05 SuSE, openSUSE 50 Comments

Check two reviews of SuSE Linux 9.2: one at MadPenguin and one at LinuxGazette.

Linus Torvalds comments on Sun’s CDDL license

Submitted by Rahul Sundaram 2004-12-05 Oracle and SUN 104 Comments

Linus Torvalds has some interesting comments on Sun's CDDL License which has been submitted to OSI's approval.

Keeping FreeBSD Up-to-Date: A Security Odyssey

Submitted by TTF 2004-12-05 FreeBSD 19 Comments

This article presents a multiple ways to keep the FreeBSD operating system up-to-date. It takes a FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE system through a subset of security advisories to explain the different sorts of patches an administrator might apply.

Firefox’s biggest obstacle is lazy programming

Submitted by Dhanesh Ramachandram 2004-12-04 Mozilla, Gecko 118 Comments

The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming – not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE. And this is a good opportunity to remind new OSNews readers about our mobile-friendly site.

Windows NT 4 support will cost in 2005

Submitted by danjr 2004-12-04 Windows 57 Comments

Microsoft will end extended support for the 8-year old OS at the end of 2004. Customers wishing support will have to sign up for a custom contract.

A Quick Look at Fedora Core 3

Eugenia Loli 2004-12-04 Fedora Core 89 Comments

A month after the release of Fedora Core 3 (FC3) we have a pretty good idea over its evolution since its first release last year. In fact, we found FC3 to be its best release yet.