Daily Archives: December 16, 2011

They use Debian GNU/Linux on 12000 machines scattered across the country. At DebConf11 there was a presentation given about how updates to the software are done in a single night remotely. The presentation mentions a rescue system they built in … Continue reading →

The next release of Debian GNU/Linux is shaping up beautifully. There are only a few hundred bugs to go and many are pretty easy to fix. Everything’s easy when you do it right. At the rate they are going, Wheezy … Continue reading →

Slated.org has a post about finding a cross-site scripting attack from M$’s network. I checked my log, too. grep ^207.46 access.log > M$.log grep bingbot M$.log|wc 5467 82005 975524 wc M$.log 8137 154312 1733632 M$.log So, a lot are bingbot … Continue reading →

The status of GNU/Linux at the beginning of 2011 was great but it kept getting better: server revenue rose twice as fast as M$’s offering Sourceforge hosts FLOSS projects that have had hundreds of millions of downloads some have had … Continue reading →

I’ve hated that other OS for more than a decade and I still meet people who also hate it but have not realized GNU/Linux could save them and their PCs from the drudgery/slavery that is Wintel. I was reading a … Continue reading →

According to IDC, iPad’s share shrunk to 59.0% Android/Linux’s share rose to 40.3% the tablet unit market grew 23.9% over Q3 2011 is estimated to have shipments of 63million tablets I expect this means that sales of x86 PCs will … Continue reading →

Unlike the shenanigans with OpenOffice.org and Java, Oracle seems to be promoting use of MySQL. Perhaps they see MySQL as an invitation to use their cash cow of a database after business grows but they actually are giving free lessons … Continue reading →