Posted in find, sysadmin, chmod, xargs, Perl, linux on Nov 28th, 2007
It’s a common sysadmin task to want to change permissions on all the
files and subdirectories under a top-level directory. You could just
use the ‘-R’ switch
to chmod,
but what if your files and directories need different permissions? One
scenario that comes up is with shared directories - you have a
directory tree that has to be writable by users […]
I very infrequently install X11/Xorg on any servers, unless I’m doing an install for a client and they ask for it. My most common server install is a base installation of Debian stable that weighs in at about 300MB. I always thought there was no need for a graphical display on a server, for […]
Posted in small business, windows, linux on Nov 13th, 2007
There’s an interesting article at ITWire on whether or not a small business afford not to run Linux. The conclusion of the author is that small business should be running Linux, both on the desktop and server. One part of the article caught my eye:
I copped some flack from the Windows crowd for some […]
Posted in free software, openbsd, linux on Nov 11th, 2007
Apparently, there is some disagreement about whether or not Gobuntu is a ‘free enough’ operating system. I often wonder about these disputes, there are plenty of truly free operating systems for the taking. Debian without the non-free or contrib repositories would be quite free enough for even the most ardent Free Software advocate. Same with […]
Here’s an interesting rant by someone who Switched From OS X to Ubuntu and got homesick. Read through the comments - there are replacements for all of his missing applications. This is someone who was used to doing things one way, and never put the effort into learning something new, or looking for alternatives (that’s […]
Posted in single user, boot, unix, security, linux on Oct 12th, 2007
Azerblog mentions that Linux distros are insecure by default, specifically that you can boot into single user mode by editing the GRUB kernel line to get to a root shell. Actually, this doesn’t work without the existing root password on Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu (not sure about other Unices or Linux distros). Just before entering […]
Posted in msm, consumer, multimedia, ubuntu, linux on Oct 9th, 2007
The New York Times published a halfway-decent look at Linux from a consumer standpoint several days ago. First, the article is noteworthy in that it mentions software freedom, something very rare in mainstream media considerations of Linux:
But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC? “For a lot […]
Posted in updates, apt-listchanges, ubuntu, debian, linux on Oct 5th, 2007
Bruce Byfield wrote an article about the dangers of automatic updates at Linux.com. I agree with him that updates are often dangerous, however, I will say that after many years of updating systems running Debian “stable”, I have not encountered any problems afterwards. After all, it’s Debian’s policy not to include any non-security updates in […]
Posted in honesty, journalism, sco, linux on Sep 25th, 2007
Dan Lyons of Forbes.com admits he was wrong about SCO. If only we could get all journalists to be this honest…
The truth, as is often the case, is far less exciting than the conspiracy theorists would like to believe. It is simply this: I got it wrong. The nerds got it right.
SCO is road kill. […]
There is a column over at DesktopLinux.com
titled
href=”http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3304051309.html”>13
reasons why Linux won’t make it to a desktop near you. The
author’s main premise is that Linux will never truly infiltrate the
consumer desktop because Linux isn’t a “normal” product in the sense
that you can easily market and brand it, and even if it were, it is
far too complex and […]
There are 125 Posts and 161 Comments so far.
![[FSF Associate Member]](http://www.unixlore.net/images/fsf_button.png "[FSF Associate Member]"){kind=small}
![[SDF Public Access Unix System]](http://www.unixlore.net/images/sdf.jpg "[SDF Public Access Unix System]")