Linux on Zio Ivan

Charles: not the Prince, the Proxy

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:33:14 +0000

It’s around 3 months now that I’m spending majority of my time developing for the web. For both Career (my new job at Betfair) and Personal (my pet project txty.mobi) reasons.

And when you do it pretty intensively, with a lot of JSON, Javascript code and what not, you need some tools to “ease tasks”. Particularly, the ones where you need to simulate a non-browser client or stuff like that.

The Android is spreading all around

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:51:28 +0000

I was sure that is was just a matter of time, before we started to see Android spreading all around into every possible flavour of Mobile (only?) piece of hardware.

It started when just the first versions of the SDK were out in the wild: people were “just” recompiling the kernel, and boom! The magic was happening. That was a demonstration of really good and effective layering: just adapting the kernel to the hosting hardware was making it up and running.

Now, with the source code available to everyone, the porting festival is becoming even larger, with small-medium company, as well as university guys, porting Android everywhere.

Linux on iPhone

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:46:48 +0000

Of course, it was a matter of time: we all knew that. But, still, this video is important: a concrete, publicly understandable proof, that Linux is going on the iPhone.

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

Probably it will never have a concrete, commercial application (like running Android, as the guys from where I took the video would like ;) ), but it’s undoubtedly an important proof of the great flexibility and adaptability of Linux and, in general, of the Open Source Software.

Debian on my NSLU2: The Revenge of the Swirl

Sat, 17 May 2008 21:57:58 +0000

After some playing with Unslung on my Linksys NSLU2, I realize it was a “very limited solution” for our needs. We need to share 4 (sometimes 5) NTFS (or others) volumes, where everyone of them is 500GB: this is too much even for the modified firmware of Unslung, unable to read the full directory trees (and the contained files) of my massive movie’s collection.

[![](http://lh6.ggpht.com/detronizator/SC9F6fE2BaE/AAAAAAAAA8I/oz-Ujfnmj9g/s160-c/TheDebianNSLU2SReign.jpg)](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/TheDebianNSLU2SReign)

[The Debian/NSLU2's Reign](http://picasaweb.google.com/detronizator/TheDebianNSLU2SReign)

So, I came back to the Debian/NSLU2 solution. This time, with all the intention to make it work. It’s quite pointless to report here all the things I did to make it work in the way I want/need. I’ll just write down the most important bits:

Unslung on my NSLU2

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:32:22 +0000

Motivated by my friend KM here (sorry, Italian link), I decided to buy a Linksys NSLU2, a Micro-[en:NAS] based on [en:Linux]. Linksys (owned by Cisco) released since day one the source code of the tuned Linux Kernel, instantly allowing the Open Source community to hack this device in a million of ways.

My requirements are very simple: I need to share something like 6 external HD using either Samba or FTP+HTTP.

I first tried to use the “out-of-the-box” NSLU2 with the latest firmware, but it’s unable to manage more than 2 disks (on an HUB, it just see the first HDD attached). I then decided to use Debian/NSLU2, a very rich distribution for [en:ARM] that is just amazing. The only problem? It seems too much for an hardware like NSLU2, plus, after a normal apt-get dist-upgrade something related with [en:SELinux] and vsftpd happened and I didn’t managed to put it all back to work. I should have disabled selinux passing the parameter selinux = 0 to the Kernel at boot time but… there is no “easily modifiable” [en:Bootloader] to pass parameters to the kernel at boot time (at least, as far as I know). I suppose that I should modify the kernel, recompile and then re-flash it. Too much for something I want to finish in max 2 days. And the NSLU2 is slow. Very slow. It took something like 12 hours to make the full installation of Debian and flash re-flash the firmware. Besides, for what I need to do, it’s not worth it to do all this.

Picture of the Day

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:09:35 +0000

Just a bunch of geniuses (that make one of the best things in the world of [en:Information Technology]) ;) . This picture was taken during the last Kernel Summit 2007.

Source, PollyCoke.

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 - New Features

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:47:21 +0000

Straightaway from OSNews.com:

“This article will briefly discuss the new features found within Gutsy Gibbon and hopefully give you a better idea of what to expect when the final version of Gutsy Gibbons is released in October. Some of the more notable new features are a Graphical Configuration tool for X, improvements in plug-in handling for Mozilla Firefox, revamped printing system with PDF printing by default, fast user switching, new desktop search (Tracker) application and the new AppArmor security framework.”

Risposta ad OSS|Blog.it

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:52:57 +0000

Ieri sono passato, come di consueto, su OSS|Blog.it e cosa ci trovo? Un brevissimo articolo su alcuni commenti che Nigel Clifford, CEO di Symbian, ha fatto su Linux e sul mercato degli smartphone con i piedi palmati.

Ho provato ad inserire la mia risposta sul relativo post… ma niente. Dice che sto spammando. Quindi… provvedo a farlo da qui.

Allora. Prima di essere assunto da Symbian, quando iniziai a studiarne la tecnologia e il Sistema Operativo, mi domandai come diavolo facevano a vendere una cosa così: Niente Eccezioni (Leave), niente (o quasi) thread (Active Objects), niente POSIX (almeno fino a quando mi hanno assunto, che è coinciso con il rilascio di P.I.P.S.), e… niente STL (ma staremo a vedere ancora per quanto ;) ).

XCode meets Mono

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:15:12 +0000

And… seems to be a nice meeting. ;) After a lot of development, the comunity surrounding the project realeases last stable version 1.2.3.1 of Mono.

What about [en:Mac_OS_X|Mac OS X]? Here is a dedicated page on the official wiki of Mono. And, in particular, I’m happy to highlight a tutorial/howto about XCode and Mono integration: CSharpPlugin.

I know that [en:Mono_(software)|Mono] is the open-source implementation of [en:.NET_Framework|.Net] (started by [en:Novell]), and that I hate [en:Microsoft|M$], but… I can’t hate a framework. It’s like to hate the [en:Plutonium] because we make the [en:Atomic_Bomb] with it! ;)

Picture of the Day

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:07:44 +0000

ROTFL

Source, EntreGeeks.

Il VERO fattore WOW!!!

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:13:48 +0000

Pollycoke, che sta ormai acquistando una certa notorietà in tutta la comunità Italiana (ma non solo), ci parla di una proposta SCONVOLGENTE (in positivo) fatta dalla comunità degli sviluppatori del Kernel ai produttori di hardware:

[…] the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver developmentAll that is needed is some kind of specification that describes how your device works, or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. […] In return, you will receive a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree

Ubuntu Studio is coming...

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:41:37 +0000

It’s a new Ubuntu-based distro: it is a “pro-target” Ubuntu, designed for:

* photographers

* printers

* audio editors

… and so on.

Coming this April…

Ubuntu Studio. A multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu. Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

Source, OSSBLog.

M. Spencer present AsteriskNOW

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:30:38 +0000

Mark Spencer, developer of many Open Source projects like Gaim and, obviously, Asterisk, and founder of Digium, shows us how much simple is to start a PBX with AsteriskNOW!.

I spoke about AsteriskNOW here, at the time of its presentation.

Source, OSSBlog.

System Rescue CD v0.3.0 released

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:34:23 +0000

Main changes:

0.3.0) 2006-12-20:

Updated the kernel to Linux-2.6.18.5 with Reiser4

Added xorg graphical environment with WindowMaker

Added gparted-0.3.3 to replace qtparted

Added ntfs3g-beta-20061212 (full NTFS Read/Write)

Added graphical editors (gvim, leafpad)

Added graphical web browsers (firefox-2.0 and dillo)

Updated the file-system tools (parted, e2fsprogs, xfsprogs, …)

Updated the system (glibc, clamav, …)

Updated the bootdisks

I used it a couple of times to fix my linux-box and, in general, my pc. It’s the swift knife of every good admin. The only “fault” of it? The project is growing only on x86: PPC is sucking.

Video of the Day

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:44:45 +0000

Title: LCA Linus Torvalds dunking Abstract: The dunking of Linus Torvalds and other well known Linux personalities raised just over $6000 for Cystic Fibrosis SA (CFSA).

Aptana: advanced IDE for Web 2.0

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:28:33 +0000

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features:

Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions

Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure

Error and warning notification for your code

Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions

Cross-platform support

Free and open source. (Source available soon)

Aptana seems to be a very powerfull IDE for Javascript (finally!!!). The biggest features is the Integrated documentation, merged with a “suggestions-system” that indicate standard and non standard tags and attributes (indicating the browser compatibility with icons). A screenshot follows:

Ubuntu Counter Project

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:09:36 +0000

Parlare di "barzelletta" sarebbe riduttivo

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:57:36 +0000

Leggete un pò cosa é successo ad un utente “non utonto” che ha, come a casa mia, la sua Lan configurata di tutto punto, quando ha deciso di provare Alice Home TV.

Da piangere. Meno male che l’Open Source esiste…

Circa 2 mesi fa mi contatta un operatore Telecom e mi propone un upgrade della mia linea: dalla 4mb sarei passato ad adls2 a 20mb, conservando lo stesso contratto e fermo restando il prezzo: per 6 mesi, avrei usufruito gratuitamente anche della HomeTv di Alice, che porta la Tv “on demand” direttamente a casa, grazie al modem-router e ad un annesso decoder (sembra un messaggio promozionale :-D ). Accettata l’offerta, è passato 1 mese prima di riuscire a vedere un tecnico, e ben 4 telefonate che mi chiedevano se il tecnico si fosse fatto vivo. Ad un certo punto non nascondo che stavo per dire “ci rinuncio, tenetevi la vostra offerta e lasciatemi la mia stabile 4mb”. …

GLS^3

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:10:50 +0000

Imagine an Integrated Desktop Search Engine that re-index every work you write, every file you create, every “content”… as you do that things… in a very discreet way. Every developer will thinks it’s a very difficult “mission”, it isn’t? ;)

Ok, but take a look here:

The GNU/Linux Semantic Storage System (GLS³) is a solution designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of your data. It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. With GLS³, you can organize and retrieve your data based on their semantics, based on What they mean to you, and not based on their hierarchical location.

GLS³ is an open source semantic storage solution for GNU/Linux that indexes your data, extracts from it metadata and relevant information, allows you to organize it using queries and tags, an API to allow Developers to integrate searching and organization capabilities in their application, an extensible plugin-based Type System, shared schemas between applications through an API, a pseudo file system for backward compatibility, a web interface, As-You-Type searching and more.

I suggest also to take a look to the published demo-videos: these are very interesting and… pregnant!

The Unix History

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:39:28 +0000

Remember, Unix is a “kind” of Operating System, UNIX is a Registered Trademark: a little bit different :D

Unix History Graph

Source, Ziobudda.

Arrived!

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:18:01 +0000

The ShipIt project by Canonical (the Company behind Ubuntu Linux) was true: yeasterday a big package with 10 CD with Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Dapper Drake was arrived to me.

8 for x86
- 1 for AMD64 and EM64T
- 1 for G3, G4, G5

The package contains also 12 Ubuntu “linux for human beings” stickers.

Thanks to Canonical!

Google thinks Different

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:36:55 +0000

I Google Labs si sono decisi: hanno rilasciato SketchUp e Google Earth per MacOSX. Il primo era sin ora disponibile solo in versione “PRO” mentre il secondo non era Universal Binary.

C’è inoltre da evidenziare che GEarth é ora disponibile nativamente anche per Linux: qui la situazione, sin ora, era peggiore, con una versione di prova rilasciata per girare in Wine (tristissimo :P ).

Sembra quindi che Google abbia mantenuto tutte le promesse, volendo coprire almeno tutta la “TRIADE” dei sistemi più diffusi.

Eldy: Simple-Functionally-Easy OS

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:40:05 +0000

Obviously, based on linux ;)

An easy and simple interface. Poor and feature-less programs. Big-Chars interface.

Usefull for old-boy with no interest to learn “new-techs”.

It’s an Italian project. Check it out.

Source, Downloadblog.

Howto defragment XFS

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:46:28 +0000

After the coronation as the best (imho ;) ) file-system for *nix systems, BitUbique post an howto defragment an XFS partition.

Simplest and fastest way?

sudo xfs_fsr -v /dev/hda1

LPI 202 Tutorial on DeveloperWorks: Web Services

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:43 +0000

IBM publish another Tutorial on the LPI Exam 202. This time it’s on the “making of a Web Server” (title “Web Services” is not correct, IMHO).

In this tutorial (the fourth in a series of seven tutorials on exam 202 topics), David Mertz discusses how to configure and run the Apache HTTP server and the Squid proxy server, and in doing so, continues preparing you to take the Linux Professional Institute Intermediate Level Administration (LPIC-2) Exam 202.

Filesystems serious and realistic comparison

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:21:58 +0000

Nemo translated (in Italian, of course) an interesting comparison between the most diffused filesystems on Linux (and not only on The Penguin): Ext2/3, Reiserfs 3, XFS, JFS.

The original article was posted by hansivers on the Debian Administration Website.

Conclusion? XFS rulez!!! And I’m on the same: I start to use XFS average 2 years ago… and some big partitions on my HD still demonstrate optimal performance. Good Job, SGI!

Linux Io Scheduler

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:22:10 +0000

The 2.6 Linux Kernel included selectable IO schedulers. IO Schedulers control the way the kernel commits reads and writes to disks - the intention of providing different schedulers is to allow better optimsation for different classes of workload.

Without an IO scheduler, the kernel would basically just issue each request to disk in the order that it received them. This could result in massive thrashing of the disk subsystem - if one process was reading from one part of the disk, and one writing to another, it would have to seek back and forth across the disk for every operation. The schedulers main goal is to optimise disk access times. An IO scheduler can use the following techniques to improve performance: Request merging The scheduler merges adjacent requests together to reduce disk seeking Elevator The scheduler orders requests based on their physical location on the block device, and it basically tries to seek in one direction as much as possible. Prioritisation The scheduler has complete control over how it prioritises requests, and can do so in a number of ways All IO schedulers should also take into account resource starvation, to ensure requests eventually do get serviced!…

Developer Works: Using ReiserFS 4 with Linux

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:09:15 +0000

Take a look at the ext2 (second extended file system), ext3 (third extended file system), and Reiser4 file systems and discover how to create your own Reiser4 file system. The most commonly used file system, ext2, is a traditional UNIX®-style file system that doesn’t mix well with modern hard drive sizes. The ext3 file system adds journalling, but not much else. If you want something really advanced, you might want to check out the current Reiser4 file system.

Finita traduzione guida ad Ubuntu Breezy

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:47:50 +0000

Treviño segnala a OSSBlog, e noi riprendiamo felicemente che è stata finita la traduzione completa della guida italiana ad Ubuntu Breezy.

Red Hat Knowledgebase: free access

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:46:19 +0000

Red Hat, finally, opens its Knowledgebase:

Red Hat Knowledgebase is a library of tips, troubleshooting advice, and current information updated daily by Red Hat technicians.

A “sink without bottom” (translation of the italian meaning-full expression “pozzo senza fondo”) of sources, knowledge, solutions about Linux.

Source, OSSBlog.

1 Linux x 6 Users

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:26:33 +0000

Introduction
A Multi-Seat Linux Box: This tutorial shows how to build a multi-head, multi-user Linux box using a recent distribution of Linux and standard USB keyboards and mice. Xorg calls this arrangement a "multi-seat" system. > Advantages of a Multi-Seat System: The advantages of multi-seat systems in schools, Internet cafes, and libraries include more than just saving money. They include much lower noise pollution, much less power consumption, and lowered space requirements. For many applications, power and noise budgets are as important as initial cost. http://www.detronizator.org/wp-admin/post.php Requirements: To build a multi-seat system you need a video adapter, keyboard, and mouse for each seat. For six seats, you'll also need a motherboard with an AGP slot and five available PCI slots. In our test system we used USB keyboards and mice exclusively, but you can use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse for one of the seats if you wish. > Xorg 6.9 or later is required, but this already ships with many of the major distributions. Our test system uses the free version of Mandriva 2006 and we did not rebuild the kernel or install any additional packages.

Here for the full article.

Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight4

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:17:40 +0000

Ubunto Dapper Drake is now UVF:

UVF - The Upstream Version Freeze

The Upstream Version Freeze is the point in the development cycle when Ubuntu stops accepting new upstream versions of software or packages. This allows the Ubuntu developers time to stabilize the current software in Ubuntu and helps avoid introducing new bugs. You can find out a bit more about this milestone at UpstreamVersionFreeze.

More informations and complete improvement list available on the official wiki.

Take a look at Gnome 2.14

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:56:25 +0000

Davyd Madeley has released a “coming soon features list” of Gnome 2.14.

Really interesting new features for Gnome users:

Speed improvement in Memory Allocation System (Gnome use a dedicated subsystem for this stuff), using a new mem-allocator called GSlice (follow a benchmark), and in Font Rendering (Gnome Terminal will be fastest of XTerm 8O )
- some Administrative tools
- improvement to the integrated search system (expecially for Beagle-Enabled linux-box)
- Metacity improvement (it will use OpenGL… but I don’t know if this means the integration with Xgl/Compiz)

Gentoo: the Mactel-Linux Project

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:22 +0000

I was one of the first Gentoo-on-iBook-7450 installer: I have an idea of the obstacles that Apple make (voluntarily?) to stop the “waste” of our hardware.

The installation of Gentoo on Mactel is only a “time issue”: EFI was, for me, the biggest problem (elilo rulez!). But I don’t know the internal hardware of that new machine.

Anyway, Good Work guys.

Source, Melablog.

Linus, Linux, i DRM ed il Trusted Computing

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:28:36 +0000

Un interessantissima disquisizione di Alessandro Bottoni reperibile su bicocca.net.

… Ancora una volta, Linux ed il mondo Open Source, saggiamente, non fanno la guerra al Trusted Computing ma il mondo Trusted Computing sta sviluppando armi potentissime con cui fare la guerra a Linux ed al “mondo libero” (Open Source)…

Lo stesso autore scrive su laspinanelfianco.wordpress.com e, in particolare, segnalo 2 categorie di questo blog:

* [DRM](http://laspinanelfianco.wordpress.com/tag/drm/)

* [Trusted-Computing](http://laspinanelfianco.wordpress.com/tag/trusted-computing/)

Ed infine, il link ai miei post precedenti su DRM e TC.

XGL: OpenGL sempre più prepotentemente sui nostri Desktop

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:54:09 +0000

XGL: tutti ne stanno parlando ultimamente. Ci sono articoli in ogni dove su XGL ma… che é? Prendiamo da Wikipedia:

Xgl is an X server architecture, started by David Reveman, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. Some say that it is seen as the future of the X.Org Server, but some disagree because it requires a 3D graphics card. Although most PCs are nowadays shipped with such a card, most vendors (most notably NVIDIA and ATI Technologies) don’t provide open source drivers for their cards, which do not work on all computer architectures supported by the X.Org Server.

XGL: wordless videos O_o

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:57:31 +0000

INCREDIBLE!!! AMAZING!!! SUPER!!! POWERFULL!!! GREAT!!!

Videos are on linuxedge. Source, OSSBlog.

Soon, Native GTK+ on MacOSX

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:58:22 +0000

Soon you may be able to execute Gnome/Gtk+ based programs ~~NATIVELLY~~ NATIVELY on Quartz without the X11 Emulation. Someone (thanks to exist) is working on the porting.

It may be the incipit of a new era for Open Source software on MacOSX. Take a look at this.

One of the most interesting characteristics of Gnome-oriented applications is the coherence between the HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) of Gnome and MacOSX.

Source: Melablog.it and StyleMac.com.

First Blade Server on Cell

Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:04:42 +0000

And, obviously, it use Linux.

Mercury Computer makes a Dual Cell-based Blade Server for scientific-military-research purpose.

Specifications:

Dual Cell BE Processors PPE core: IBM® 64-bit PowerArchitecture™ L1 cache size: 32 KB instruction; 32 KB data L2 cache size: 512 KB SPUs: 8 Local memory size: 256 KB Registers: 128 x 128 bits wide EIB: 192 GB/s aggregate bandwidth Processor internal clock speed: 3 GHz Processor-to-memory bandwidth: 24.0 GB/s Processor-to-processor coherent interface: 20 GB/s in each direction

GNU/Linux Command reference

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:53:18 +0000

A big one: Linux Shortcuts and Commands. An italian book that have a dedicated chapter: Linux Facile.

Source: OSSBlog.

elilo: boot on EFI machine

Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:49:43 +0000

Linux, as we can expect from the linux-comunity, are ready for the EFI system that will substitute the old BIOS system on our (x86) machine.

EFI is the boot-system used on the new MacIntel machine, presented from Apple at Jan 10. What it means? It means that we can install and run on EFI-enabled machine every Operating System, also which that does not “understand” EFI (WinXP is the biggest example).

Here the home page of elilo, the EFI linux boot loader.

Linux != Windows

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:05:18 +0000

This funny article is here: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm.

Thanks to KM.

How to compile aMule 2.1.0 for Ubuntu/Debian

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:54:19 +0000

Thanks to Treviño for the howto (in italian).

But, for high-speed ubuntu/debian users, click here for the .deb.

Clearlooks con Cairo abilitato

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:06:22 +0000

Howto in italiano su come abilitare il supporto a Cairo per il tema Clearlooks delle GTK+. Questo tema é il nuovo tema ufficiale di Gnome e devo dire che con il supporto Cairo, tutto funge ancora più velocemente.

Qui trovate l’howto.

KDE 4 will run Dashboard Widgets

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:57:36 +0000

It’s easy to understand how: WebKit and KHTML use the same core (now they aren’t still together).

But, what about Cocoa-Based widgets? :?:

From Zack Rusin’s blog:

I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It’s in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we’ll merge it to HEAD. I’m planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I’ve spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element)…

Embedding Python in your C programs

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:28:30 +0000

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively compiled programs. However, they are not languages that lend themselves to runtime flexibility. Once a C/C++ application is compiled, its code is pretty much static. At times, that can be a real hindrance. For example, if you want to allow users of a program to create plugins easily that extend the application’s functionality, you have to deal with complex dynamic linking issues that can cause no end of headaches. Additionally, your users will have to know C/C++ in order to extend the application, which severely limits the number of people capable of writing extensions.

XGL screenshots

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:21:05 +0000

XGL is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL. It is at an early stage in development and a number of important pieces are still missing. Xglx is the only server yet that use this architecture, it requires an already existing X server and is only intended for testing and development.

Because of a slow “development process”, Novell decides to migrate the CVS of the Project and to make it private, paying developers to “speed up” the process.

The Open Source software at my Bachelor Course

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:52:58 +0000

In my University the Open Source has not much esteemer: a my good friend make a interesting “analysis” about the usage of OS software to pass an examination.

At Neminis.org.

~~I found the gEDA Project for Electronic Design Automation: I love you Nemo :D.~~ It does not run on my IceBook :(.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 available

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:28:51 +0000

Via OSSBlog.

Manage ARA PBX easy

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:20:54 +0000

Callware VoiceOne is a web-app with an user-friendly look&feel about the management of PBX based on Asterisk Realtime Architecture (ARA) platform.

With this software, it’s possible to control the internal telephone line of our (:D) company. It’s possible to manage:

Internal numbers
VoIP Providers
Queue and multilevel permissions
Automatic responser systems

The application is under the Open Source LGP license and require Linux. Actually, 0.1 version is available.

BlogFS

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:12:38 +0000

BlogFS is a FUSE filesystem allowing you to mount your WordPress blog on your local filesystem. It uses XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API to communicate with WordPress. It might work on other MetaWeblog compatible weblogs, but it has only been tested with the single user edition of WordPress 1.5.

Fish: a new Unix Shell

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:03:28 +0000

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.

Bash is a standard (de facto), as every *nix user now but… this is the beauty of the OpenSource: any other programmer can think “hey, I want to remake this in another way!” and, than, do!

Fish is a beautiful example.

For screenshots-addicted users (like me ;)), go here.

-EDIT- Thanks to Nemo for “errata-corrige”.

New pages on www.detronizator.org

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:20:23 +0000

Hi. Finally, I take a lot of time to make my personal pages.

I insert the “right things” in the pages WORKS (my occupations, my works and my experiences), and OUTPUTS (my universitary and personal projects).

Gentoo Linux - Visual Installer Project

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:35:05 +0000

It’s, IMHO, the project that can give to Gentoo the right “power” and “motivation” to become the BEST source-based distribution in the world (is it not already? ;)).

The installer looks really coerent with the “manual-old-style” Gentoo Installation and offers an on-line help to guide the user through the (beautiful) installation process.

There is a graphical partitioning tool and … some other interesting features.

Good luck Gentoo. Link.

-EDIT- Thanks to KillinMilk for the “errata-corrige”.

L'università non sceglie Linux

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:28:42 +0000

Interessante digressione di OSBlog su un problema PESANTEMENTE SENTITO da me (come altri miei colleghi) dell’uso SBAGLIATO, INDISCRIMINATO E SENZA MOTIVO di software a pagamento nei centri di ricerca e nelle università (soprattutto dove si potrebbe evitare, anche e soprattutto per motivi didattici).

Dal mio punto di vista, sono diversi anni che suggerisco (ormai sempre con meno vigore… gli ignoranti restino ignoranti) nel mio ambiente universitario l’uso di software opensource lì dove se ne trarrebbe SOLO vantaggio. Leggasi vantaggi economici, vantaggi didattici (usare un sistema unix accresce e di molto le proprie conoscenze informatiche), vantaggi “amministrativi” (l’Università, la mia facoltà potrebbe tranquillamente scegliere 3/4 ragazzi in gamba per gestirsi sito web e tanti servizi ad esso correlati… invece si affida ad aziende che si fanno pagare contratti milionari per fare cose che dei bravi studenti (magari sotto la guida di un buon docente) potrebbero TRANQUILLAMENTE fare da soli).

A certifiable path to Linux Jobs

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:11:06 +0000

You don’t have to have a Linux certification to get a job working with Linux, but it can’t hurt.

Simply working on Linux is easy. Join a Linux community like The Debian Project, Red Hat’s Fedora, Novell’s OpenSUSE, or half-a-hundred projects and go for it. Of course, you won’t get paid, and 95 percent of the work on Linux projects is programming. So, if you want a salary, and your skills lie in system administration or network management, it behooves you to look into Linux certifications. …