Volunteers wanted: (Net)BSD at Linuxtag Wiesbaden/Germany
March 17, 2006
>From NetBSD-advocacy:
"Linuxtag is said to be the biggest Linux-related
Event in Europe,
it happens May 2nd to 6th in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Similar to CeBit, there will be a joint BSD booth, and
we're still
looking for volunteers to man the booth, answer questions,
show NetBSD
etc. Please get in touch with me so I can coordinate things
and get you
in contact with the people organizing the BSD booth.
I'd also like to provide NetBSD T-shirts, posters and
flyers, we'll
have to see what to do for CDs.
Besides doing booth duty, I recommend answering the call for
papers and
do a presentation about NetBSD, pkgsrc or related topics.
Some
inspirations:
http://w
ww.netbsd.org/gallery/presentations/
http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2006/vortraege/plan.html
http://www.feyrer.de/
Texts/Own/
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5602
LINK: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5602
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10 Things I Hate About U(NIX) Revisited: Readers Speak
March 17, 2006
"The operating systems I use on a daily basis are Mac
OS X, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, and Linux. Of these, OpenBSD is probably my
favorite; it has
first-rate documentation and a clear and consistent layout.
Oh, and decent
security, too."
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5601
LINK: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.as
p?p=456824
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SOX and the GPL: no "special" risk, but ordinary
one bad enough
March 17, 2006
This guest column by Wasabi VP and General Counsel Jay
Michaelson responds
to a reaction from Free Software Foundation General Counsel
Eban Moglen to
a Wasabi whitepaper that discussed potential interactions
between
Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX) legislation and the GNU General Public
License
(GPL).
Wasabi is best-known for BSD-based embedded operating system
stacks
licensed under the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)
license, a less
restrictive alternative to the GNU GPL (General Public
License) used by
Linux. Unlike the GPL, the BSD license does not require
modifications and
enhancements to be contributed back to the community at
large, a "feature"
that has made the license popular in some commercial
applications, while
arguably limiting BSD-licensed software's technical
progress and
adoption rates, in comparison to Linux.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5600
LINK: ht
tp://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9209373039.html
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Ruby on Rails Scales to 2.5 Million Requests/Day
March 17, 2006
The Robot Co-op's umbrella of Rails apps, including 43
Things and 43
Places, has become one of the poster children of large scale
Rails
applications in production. For all those wondering how they
are scaling
to 2.5 million requests/day, Eric Hodel has posted a
breakdown of their
hardware setup.
A visitor asked what operating system they are using?
Eric Hodel replied "john: All FreeBSD 6 on UFS2 as I
prefer my safety
belts. The Opteron is in amd64 mode. The database sits all
in RAM so the
machine is nearly idle..."
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5599
LINK: http://weblog.rubyonrails
.com/articles/2006/03/16/hardware-setup-behind-the-robot-co-
op
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Not Quite Dead Yet
March 16, 2006
An editorial discussing the state of Daemons News, and the
recent
developments has been published. It includes a brief
commentary from Chris
Coleman regarding the enhancements to the DN publishing
engine and a short
call to volunteers by myself.
I Think at this point it's best to just let the article
speak for
itself.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5597
LINK: htt
p://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/editorial.html
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Shell Corner: Safely Sharing Screen Sessions with sudo
March 16, 2006
"A while ago, Ed and John Spurgeon published an
article in Sys Admin
magazine on the use of screen in scripts. Within the
article, there was a
small problem with the section on using sudo to share
screens— it would
give anyone using the shared session the ability to create a
shell running
as root!
Since just one compromised machine is one too many, I dashed
off an email
to Ed explaining the bug and including a possible way to
mitigate it. In
this article, I'll describe a couple of tempting but
insecure methods for
easing the work of sharing screen sessions, reveal their
faults, and then
present a set of scripts that act together to provide a
safe, easy to use
alternative."
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5596
LINK:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10060/ur0603a/
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