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Apache’s Jakarta-Tomcat Server Explained — silly me, a dupe

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot has posted an explanation of the Apache group’s Jakarta-Tomcat server.

Life with 2.4

Author: JT Smith

Debianplanet is running a short article on migrating to the 2.4 kernel series from the 2.2. series. One of the more important parts it covers is the new devfs feature.

Category:

  • Linux

FreeBSD 4.3 released

Author: JT Smith

As mentioned on Slashdot, FreeBSD 4.3 has been released on FTP. The release notes cover the changes between 4.2 and 4.3 FreeBSD.

Category:

  • Unix

Preventative DNS

Author: JT Smith

Kuro5hin is hosting an article about migrating from BIND to the djbdns package. “Sick of having to deal with the latest BIND exploit du jour? How about having to deal with concerted attacks on your DNS system, poisoning your named cache and sending your clients to unknown websites (whose SSL certificates, I might add, would now match the spoofed hostnames)?

Category:

  • Unix

Civilization: Call to Power review

Author: JT Smith

Activision’s classical Civilization: Call to Power is finally available for the Linux operating system from Loki Entertainment Software. For all you game freaks, who spend all your time in front of the screen, this is one strategy and action-filled game that you cannot miss.
” Linux.com has the full review available.

SGI to lay off 1,000 employees

Author: JT Smith

Linuxgram has a story saying that SGI plans to cut 15% of its workforce in an attempt to get profitable. SGI CEO Bob Bishop aid that “prudence” demands the company scale back
expenses in the current technology economic climate.

Category:

  • Open Source

Linux 2.4.3-ac12 released

Author: JT Smith

Alan Cox has another Linux kernel version available. It’s at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/.
Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.

2.4.3-ac12
o Rewrite the i2o post handling code to fix (me)
DMA memory scribbles
o Handle IOP constipation in the i2o_block layer (me)
o Fix bugs in the i2o table query causing reboots (me)
in i2o_proc on the DPT card
o Add quirks for i2o cards that handle large I/O (me)
queues badly [Promise supertrak100]
o Add cache heuristics to the I2O block driver (me)
| We don’t cache large writes (assume seq)
| We writeback small writes (random, metadata)
o Disable use of writeback caching if there is (me)
no battery backup
o Merge Linus 2.4.4pre6
o Further semaphore fixes (David Howells)
o Correct ‘void main’ to ‘int main’ in rtc doc (Jesper Juhl)
o Hopefully fix bugtraq reported netfilter ftp
flaw
o Fix unistd.h for ARM (Russell King)
o Fix pre-emption of rt tasks (Nigel Gamble)
o Fix revalidation bugs in cciss/cpqarray (Charles White)
when rereading partitions
o Acenic updates (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix MAINTAINERS sort order (David Woodhouse)
o Restore DVDRAM fix with cdrom init fix too (Jens Axboe)
o Fix irda disconnect timeout bug (Dag Brattli)
o Experimentally reap dead swap harder (Dave Miller)
o Remove dead low mtu checks from drivers (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)
o Add missing sk_chk_filter export (Byeong-ryeol Kim)
o Quieten pci printks, send them to log (Arjan van de Ven)
o Hopefully fix fastrak oops (me)

Category:

  • Linux

Embedded Linux flexes its muscles at ESC 2001 (Part 1)

Author: JT Smith

Linuxdevices.com has part 1 of its report on ESC 2001. “In my writings about past Embedded Systems Conferences, I’ve characterized the impact of Linux on the embedded market as a “disruptive technology” that was rewriting the rules of the game. Not any more — the disruption now appears to be complete!

Category:

  • Linux

Linux.com interviews GNOME bug mistress Telsa Gwynne

Author: JT Smith

Linux.com has posted an interview with Telsa Gwynne, famed wife of Alan Cox, and excellent writer working with the Gnome project.

Category:

  • Open Source

PHP, Perl, Java servlets: What’s right for you?

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot has an article looking at three languages commonly used to automate websites, and their respective merits.