[dundee] Taylug Weekly Articles 20 - DEBIAN

Sat Apr 26 14:51:23 BST 2008

Hi All,
This week the theme is DEBIAN. This distro seems to be well featured
this week and they have a new project leader, Steve McIntyre, who
works for a UK company in Cambridgeshire. I think the majority of
people on TayLUG runs a Debian based system e.g. Ubuntu and and its
derivatives and a group of us from Abertay Linux Society attended the
Debian Conference for one day last year at the University of Edinburgh
(we've got the T-shirts).

D – Distro's & desktop:
Lots of developers want to join the Debian project.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39397444,00.htm

This guy has just become a Debian developer.
http://info.comodo.priv.at/blog/archives/2008/04/#e2008-04-18T22_01_10.txt

This guy is a user of Debian.
http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2008/04/ive-been-using-debian-lenny-a.html

To use stable or testing Debian?
http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2008/04/for-me-debian-testing-is-more.html

Spring collection of Linux distros? Is it the computer or catwalk we
are talking about?
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/quick_look_spring_linux_distributions_mandriva_ubuntu_fedora_and_opensuse

Damn Small Linux released, only 50MB.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04852

KDE is going to be used by 52 million people in Brazil.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html

KDE & Gnome having a combined conference in 2009, this sounds cool.
http://ev.kde.org/announcements/2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.php

Brian Proffitt giving his thoughts on some of the news.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-25-017-26-OP-DT-KE

An article about Red Hat and Ubuntu.
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/24/red-hat-ubuntu-pairing-would-have-potential/

How to migrate to Linux desktops in your company.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/occs-pt2/?ca=dgr-lnxw02OCCSLinuxMigrate&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

E – Ethical hacking and security:
Is this just coincidence? Tim giving a great talk on SQL injection and
the next day this article appears.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/192051/hackers-infect-half-a-million-websites.html

An introduction to Computer Forensics.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introduction-forensics

A report on O.S. Security, remember don't shoot the messenger.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080425-study-70-percent-say-red-hat-more-secure-than-windows.html

Ksplice, a new system for applying Linux kernel updates without rebooting.
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Ksplice_Rebootless_Linux_Kernel_Security_Updates

B – Basement articles from Finux and other fings:
Now who has been a busy, busy boy in the last few weeks and who will
be busy in the next two weeks. None other but Arron Finnon, aka Finux
the President of the Abertay Linux Society. So I have dedicated a
whole section to him giving the articles that he done for Linux
Basement.

http://linuxbasement.com/content/lb-episode-19-save-earth-planting-a-rootkit-linux-basement

http://linuxbasement.com/content/finuxs-guide-to-rootkits

http://linuxbasement.com/content/finuxs-kismet-gpsdrive-google-earth-howto-guide

http://linuxbasement.com/content/lb-episode-18-experi-mental-linux-linux-basement

This article will not be ready until the end of next week.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/

He is also going to Edinburgh on Thursday, chaperoned by other
members, to give a talk and demonstration of the OLPC's at EdLUG.
http://www.scotlug.org.uk/wiki/EdLUG:Meetings

I – I.T. and open source news:
A blog about Unix.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8524

A summing up of the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit.
http://lwn.net/Articles/277576/

More highlights from this summit.
http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2008/04/24/linux-foundation-reports-highlights-from-annual-collaboration-summit/

Red Hat boosts performance in Chicago.
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1309889,00.html

Vyatta a Linux routing technology.
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3741981

Mindtouch, an open source collaboration company is booming.
http://wiki.mindtouch.com/Press_Room/Press_Releases/2008-04-16

An update on Google summer of code 2008.
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/google-summer-of-code-2008-tak.html

This is Free Geek, a not-for-profit community organization.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/helping-needy-get-nerdy

Open source for Universities.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132702

A discussion on programming languages.
http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/207401593

A – Applications:
A new scandal in France about the OOXML.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080418111340426

Especially when Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test.
http://www.news.com/Office-2007-fails-OOXML-conformance-test/2100-7344_3-6237855.html

ODF is now the South African standard.
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365

Open Office doing well on the Continent.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=720&blogid=14

Importing and exporting data in an Open Office database.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132566

The Dutch NLnet foundation sponsoring work in KOffice.
http://dot.kde.org/1208521131/

Using Cinelerra, the video editing program.
http://project.akirad.net/node/15

Three Linux HTML editors, I use Bluefish for the TayLUG web site.
http://www.linux.com/feature/130601

Using the MySQL query browser.
http://www.packtpub.com/article/building-queries-visually-in-mysql-query-browser

The Phoronix bench marking test suite.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pts_040&num=1

N – New gadgets:
A Canadian company has produced a sub £150 notebook that runs embedded Linux
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3441111408.html

A Linux Microserver from Japan, soon you will be able to wear one on your wrist!
http://www.plathome.com/news/release/release080421.html

Hot swap 2.5" drives.
http://www.bioslevel.com/articles/StarTech.com-SATABAY425BK

The next meeting is on the 8th of May at the Abertay Linux Society,
and a talk on "rootkits" will be given by Arron Finnon, who wins our
geek of the month (or maybe year) award for all those articles and
talks. Have a good week.

Gordon
TayLUG Administrator