Posted by Doug
Thu, 26 May 2005 15:01:00 GMT
Looks like my next phone will be a Nokia. They’ve
announced they’ll allow all their patents to be used to further development of the Linux kernel.
Nokia says, that it believes that open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation of technologies. And that the investment made by so many individuals and companies in creating and developing the Linux Kernel and other open source software deserve a framework of certainty.
Nice. They get my vote!
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Posted by Doug
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:05:00 GMT
Two items in this week’s
Debian Weekly News that are of interest to me.
In looking to lease dedicated hosts from ISPs, it sometimes becomes hard to find boxes that aren’t pre-configured with Redhat Linux. To the uninitiated, they might think that as long as I’m running
GNU/Linux, I should be happy. The problem is that doing system administration on different distributions is fairly differnt. It’s just enough different to make my brain hurt. So, what to do if you’ve found a really nice
ISP but they only have Redhat systems? It’s typically been very difficult to install
GNU/Linux without physical access to the boxes. I haven’t read the article yet, but
here’s an article that describes how to install debian on a box you don’t have physical access to.
Another worrisome issue is when you want to run Debian on a system where you’re not allowed to re-install the operating system (think work computer or client’s computer when contracting here). Matthias Muller has written a
document on how to boot Debian
GNU/Linux from a
USB stick.
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Posted by Doug
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:57:00 GMT
I’m using logrotate from the debian/woody
GNU/Linux distribution. Somehow I’ve gotten an error in its configuration even though I haven’t manyally changed anything. Every stinking day I get mail from Anacron with this message:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/apache/*.log
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1
When I trace it down, the postroate script is simply
/etc/init.d/apache reload > /dev/null I’ve run that from the command line and verified it’s return code is 0. How annoying.
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