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The Fedora Project officially released Fedora 8 today, and the neatest feature is not this animated GIF! You can find a list of the many new features on the Fedora Project Wiki.
Let me take the opportunity to remind you that Fedora represents the cutting-edge in Red Hat-based Linux. Designed …
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Red Hat recently released a flood of kernel-related bug fixes. Here's a list of the affected packages:
If you use any of these packages, make sure you are up to date.
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With the release of Fedora 8 on the immediate horizon, Bill Nottingham of the Fedora Project announced the End of Life date for Fedora Core 6 as Friday, December 7, 2007.
As a reminder, the Fedora Project supports a release for a full month following the second successive release. So …
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I spent a fair amount of time earlier this week contemplating the fate of the BlogRush widget on Slaptijack. The fact of the matter is that after running the widget for two weeks, I haven't received a single visitor from it. Not only that, I haven't even seen any of …
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The main advantage of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux over something more cutting-edge like Fedora is the length of time Red Hat supports their Enterprise product.
The Fedora Project only supports the current and previous versions of Fedora (formerly Fedora Core). Since Fedora utilizes a six month release cycle, you …
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Two more updates for applications based on the Horde Application Framework were released today. Once again, the product descriptions are from Jan Schneider of The Horde Project.
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Sam Varshavchik has announced an updated release of the Courier Mail Server and Courier IMAP Server (Courier 20070921). Changes since the last release include
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In a recent article on Read/WriteWeb about Online Office Apps, Josh Catone mentioned off-hand that he didn't like the Gmail user interface. Since I've been using the Gmail interface exclusively for quite a while, I decided it might be time to talk about the problems I have with the …
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Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., makers of the popular BIND <acronym title="Domain Name Service">DNS</acronym> server and INN Usenet server, has announced the End of Life for BIND 8 . I received an email from ISC on this topic earlier in the month, but I wasn't aware that the <acronym …
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Somehow I managed to miss the fact that Mac OS Forge released MacPorts v1.5. If you aren't familiar with MacPorts, it's the reincarnation of DarwinPorts under the Mac OS Forge / Apple banner. For any UNIX admin, or serious OS X-er, MacPorts is an extensive collection of UNIX tools ported …
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Anyone that has spent any time with Best Practical's RT: Request Tracker knows that it is a leader in the open-source ticketing system market. It is both robust and highly configurable. I've used several systems for incident, trouble, and bug tracking over the last 10+ years, but RT is by …
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By default, MySQL only allows access by the 'root' account from the host running the database server ('localhost'). Often times that's perfectly adequate. There are occasions when you need remote access as the 'root' account, however. In these cases, it's helpful to be aware of one little gotcha when creating …
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If you've spent any time managing a web site, you are undoubtedly familiar with the dreaded Alexa rankings. It's common knowledge that these numbers are fairly useless since they depend on the end user having the Alexa toolbar installed. Obviously, not everyone has this. To make matters worse, Alexa only …
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I wrote recently about using Subversion over SSH. A minor annoyance with that setup is the need to enter your system password at least once, and sometimes multiple times depending on the action you are taking. There are also times when a remote system needs to access another system via …
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If you've ever needed to set up a Subversion repository, you know how long it can take to get WebDAV working with Apache before you even get to the repository set up. Although WebDAV is the best overall protocol for Subversion repositories (it doesn't require real users on the system …
