"A new testing version of PUD GNU/Linux, an Ubuntu-based mini distribution with Xfce, has been released: ..."
Read more »Drupal 6 keeps getting better
Drupal is a modular content management system. It allows a user or group of users to construct Web sites, blogs, or forums by providing the framework for users with little or no PHP or database experience. It grows more popular with each new release because it becomes easier to use each new release. Drupal 6.0 (and 6.1) were recently released after a year of development.
Read more »How To Extract Values From top And Plot Them
Many researchers who are doing performance evaluation and benchmarking need to capture the values of the CPU and the RAM. Others might need to capture the throughput as well. In this short tutorial I will show how I capture the CPU and RAM values from “top” and then extract them in one line command.
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Web Developer 1.1.5 and User Agent Switcher 0.6.11
"...New versions of the Web Developer and User Agent Switcher extensions have been released. These releases are mainly to add support for the upcoming Firefox 3, but also contain a few other bug fixes..." -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
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Self-support tools work with Java, Linux
A small start-up based in Seattle has started selling a "self-support" tool for developers working with Java and/or Linux. SourceLabs says its "Self-Support Suite" can quickly identify problems and locate solutions for users of Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Axis, and Tomcat, as well as select Linux applications.
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Project DogTag - Open Source Certificate System
Project DogTag is the culmination of many months of work to prepare the code of Red Hat Certificate System to be open sourced.
Read more »Open Source Development For iPhone Takes Shape
There is no shortage of hype around developing for the Apple iPhone. Moving beyond the hype there are also real tools, among them an open source tool from Ajax vendor Aptana.
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Web Servers: Don't Count Apache Out
There's been discussion in the open source world about a decline in the popularity of the dominant Apache web server. These concerned are fueled largely by the Netcraft survey of the internet, which shows a 20% decline in Apache's market share over the last three years, from a high near 70% to the 50% or so it enjoys today.
Read more »Install Anyterm for remote terminal access without SSH
Anyterm allows you to have secure terminal access to a server without needing any special software on a client machine beyond a Web browser. For example, with Anyterm you can open a terminal into your server from an Internet cafe. Because Anyterm uses a pseudo-terminal for communication with the shell, you can run most command-line tools from an Anyterm terminal running inside a Web browser.
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So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?
Tired of all the knee-jerk banter from fanboys about whose operating system is the most secure? So are the organizers of the CanSecWest security conference, which will be held in Vancouver later this month. And with a contest awarding as much as $25,000 worth of prizes, they're likely to breathe fresh life into a stale debate.
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Looking forward to Firefox/Iceweasel 3.0
"After using Firefox 3 Beta 4 (built from source) for a few hours, I'm pretty impressed: [...] Now I just have to wait for Iceweasel 3.0, and in the meantime I won't be going back to version 2.0!"
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MonoDevelop 1.0 officially released
The official 1.0 release of MonoDevelop was announced late last week. The open source development environment includes a number of advanced features such as project management tools, a graphical user interface designer, a unit testing system, version control integration, and an add-in system that facilitates extensibility.
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Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P" Released
"On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P". Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages..."
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 2
"Today's pieces of the banner generator puzzle are a couple of scripts to generate backgrounds. We'll start with the most basic one."... the continuation of Penguin Pete's Image Magick Banner Generation series
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Setup a Spam-Proof Vacation Autoresponder with Procmail + Sendmail
The problem with vacation auto responders like 'vacation' for sendmail is that spammers often fake the From: address. Auto responding to these addresses can get your mail server blacklisted. To avoid this you can setup your autoresponder with procmail and, if you are running a spam filter on your machine, you can tell procmail to auto respond only if the X Spam Status header is 'No.'
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