If you’ve decided to have a play with Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, watch out for this bug, it’s annoying (though not fatal in this case) and it’s easily fixed by removing EVMS.
sudo apt-get remove evms
The cororally is that if you are using EVMS, now may not be the best time to upgrade..
Today the people organising the SysAdmin Miniconf as part of LCA 2008 posted the following CFP, please read and consider responding to them if you have something interesting to report there! (( I’m not involved with this, but the one at LCA2006 in Dunedin, NZ was good. ))
As a member of the technical program committee for VTDC 2007 I present the following Call for Papers, please feel free to pass on the text version to others that you know who may have an interest in this workshop.
Back in 2004 Sun’s then CEO, Scott McNealy, stated in an interview with Jem Matzan (NewsForge reprint) about CDDL’ing OpenSolaris:
We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code — I couldn’t say anything about that at the time, but now I can tell you that we paid them that license fee to expand our rights to the code
However, now that Judge Kimball has ruled that Novell actually owns the copyrights and not SCO I presume it’s now up to Novell to decide whether or not that deal is still valid, probably at least partly dependant on whether or not SCO can find the cash to pony up the dues on it they illegally withheld from Novell.
Could be interesting given Novell’s stake in Linux.
Groklaw has the details, but Judge Kimball has ruled in SCO versus Novell that:
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
Additionally he has ruled that:
SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent
There is now a text version of the judgement.
Tango, the new AMD Opteron cluster that’s getting built at VPAC to replace the now 4 year old Brecca is taking shape nicely!
Woo-hoo! KDE4 Beta 1 has been released!
KUbuntu packages are on their way (not linked from the Kubuntu front page yet as they’re still compiling).
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) is looking for a Linux systems administrator to join our systems team working on grid computing.
Reporting to the ICI Operations Manager, you will be working primarily in a Linux systems administrator role with Grid toolkits such as Globus and VDT. You will be involved in a National Project to provide Grid Based Computing available across Australia. The ability to work with and support our end users (typically scientific researchers and software developers) is very important in this role. Some national and international travel will be involved.
So if you think that it sounds interesting then please and go read the job advert on the VPAC website, or at least tell a friend! 🙂
Just to show what not to do when writing drivers, this just in from LWN:
A LinuxFR reader has sent out an alert (in French) about the Samsung SCX-4200 printer driver for Linux. It appears that the driver author had some trouble with the Linux permission model; the response was to make a few applications run setuid root. A quick look at the install script shows that the affected programs are xsane, xscanimage, and the major OpenOffice.org components. The script also replaces some CUPS executables and does some other fun things. This seems like code to avoid for anybody wanting to run a remotely secure system.
Ugh.
Dear Lazyweb,
I was commenting on a blog by Alec about social media and conferences and looking at the LCA 2007 programme for the first time (as I couldn’t go this year) and spotted this on the research track..
Panel Session by Chris Samuel & Gernot Heiser
Now given that this Chris Samuel couldn’t go to LCA does anyone know who that was ?