Jakub Jermar On HelenOS
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jakub Jermar via e-mail regarding his motivation behind creating and advancing HelenOS, an operating system based on the from-scratch Spartan microkernel. An important disclaimer, I am a contributor to HelenOS for my own reasons. My status as a contributor did not stop me from challenging Jakub with interesting [...]
Time for more tutorials
I’m (nearly) done converting all of my existing documentation into Asciidoc format. Its time to write more tutorials. What remains is, what to write? I could do more Xen centric stuff, perhaps some bits on how to setup storage servers, roll your own single system image cluster? I’d rather write what people actually need. So, [...]
Can synchronized GNU/Linux releases work?
In short, yes but the quality and originality of the releases might dwindle. Mark Shuttleworth (funder and founder of Ubuntu) wants to explore the possibility of all major GNU/Linux distributions releasing new versions on the same schedule. Major distributions would be Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. The idea looks very good on paper. Software developers [...]
SRCE 1.0.9 maintenance release
The maintenance release for SRCE (version 1.0.9) is now available. This release adds some increased security, the ability to have the scheduler drop privileges and numerous other code improvements. This is technically a ‘source maintenance’ release for general housecleaning and closing of old and nagging quirks. Binary and source packages are available, RPM’s probably won’t [...]
SRCE interim security release 1.0.8
For those of you who use SRCE and keep up to date on news via this blog, an interim security release is available that fixes a potential privilege escalation issue in srce-execd. From the announcement on srce-devel / srce-users:
The beginning of MySQL’s end
I’m pleased to announce another runner-up for 2008′s biggest brain dead blunder award. MySQL has elected to shift development focus to their enterprise offerings (making more code proprietary), likely leaving the free/open source offerings to gather mold. This is a classic case of a company not understanding how people actually use their products and the [...]
Helen, Spartan and Sensibility
While reading freshmeat, I stumbled across an emerging operating system named HelenOS. HelenOS (after Helen of Troy) is a new operating system based on a preemptible micro kernel (Spartan) that has some really neat features. You thought microkernels were dead? Read on. Helen boots on pretty much every major architecture (even Xen friendly!). Its being [...]
A week with WordPress 2.5
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of WordPress 2.5. I’ve been using it for a week now, I’m really impressed. In case you did not notice, Echoreply does not use WordPress in a typical’ manner. When I started Echoreply, all pages were static. Later, after making many (many) pages I finally broke down and installed [...]
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