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Public Group active 2 months, 2 weeks agoA group for anyone at any level of knowledge to share what they know or ask about what they don’t know.
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Gnu/Linux: 8 months, 3 weeks agoSoftware Freedom Day, 17th September
Access Space are taking the lead in the Sheffield ‘Software Freedom Day’ events. These will be running on 17th September. We shall be hosting a celebration of Software Freedom and Free Software Developers at Access Space. And we shall be having a stall in the Train Station to promote Software Freedom, show…[Read more]
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Gnu/Linux: 1 year, 1 month ago ago · updated 1 year, 1 month ago agoMay be a silly point but Stallman is suggesting we move to saying GNU + Linux, it being easier to say and a bit more precise.
Also if anyone is looking to manage 10+ linux boxes at once I’m just learning Puppet which seems to be a really nice configuration management tool. Drop me a line or pop in to Access Space 11-2pm Tues to Fri -
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Gnu/Linux: 1 year, 11 months ago ago · updated 1 year, 1 month ago agoHello. I wrote this.
Our father, who art in /sbin,
init is thy name.
Thy PID is 1;
Thy children run
In user space as they do in kernel.
Give us this day our daily RAM
And forgive us our interrupts
As we are nice to those who interrupt us.
Lead us not into uncaught exception
And deliver us from SIGKILL
For thine is the system
And thou art the…[Read more]-
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Gnu/Linux: 1 year, 8 months agoHas anyone got any stories to share of a weird and wonderful places you’ve managed to cram linux?
My favourite project to date was converting a HP t5700 thin client into a game testing box. After trying a couple of different cheap thin clients I chanced upon this model. I upgraded the RAM to 512mb whipped out the ROM chip so it would look for…[Read more]
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Karl Buckland posted an update in the group
Gnu/Linux: 1 year, 10 months ago ago · updated 1 year, 8 months ago agoIf anyone is looking to revive and old machine I’ve been using a couple of flavours recently that’ll do nicely. I’ve been running Crunchbang, an ubuntu based light OS, on a mini ITX machine running a netbook style motherboard (Atom 330…it barely draws any power with it’s power supply never taxed at it’s max rating of 120w) for months and it…[Read more]
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I’ve found another one that looks promising, SliTaz. It’s got a tiny footprint and runs entirely in memory. You can run it from a LiveCD but http://www.pendrivelinux.com also has an article on how to run it from a USB stick. As soon as I’ve found one I can clear off I’ll be giving this a whirl to see how it compares.
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Karl Buckland posted an update in the group
Gnu/Linux: 1 year, 11 months ago ago · updated 1 year, 9 months ago agoHi, who uses what flavour?
I’ve had a little experience with a lot of flavours but I mostly use CentOS.-
Ubuntu here.
Got it on my Dell Mini10v Netbook (thanks again Ian) and it’s now running as my development environment in a VM on my Windows PCs.
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I use an Ubuntu derivative (Crunchbang) on my Atom based net browsing machine at home.
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Ubuntu on my net book and VM on my mac
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I’ve tried Ubuntu but have always been a Fedora user. I’ve installed every Fedora version since 2 and set up Fedora 13 over the weekend. It’s a dual-boot laptop with Windows Vista.
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I use Fedora on my lappy (Dell XPS M1330). It’s nice. I have a bit of a glitch running sound in Wine that I haven’t got sorted out yet but the eye candy is sweet and it runs fast and stable for everything else so far.
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In my last job, I used Ubuntu 8.04. Only stopped using it as I have a Mac in my new job. I can honestly say, even as a self-confessed Mac fanatic, that Ubuntu and the Mac are peerless OSs for working with LAMP.
The only thing that I would find lacking about Ubuntu in my current job would be the lack of first-party support for Adobe Photoshop – I…[Read more]
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debian debian debian, for everything from the one by my bed (especialy since ubuntu went all facebook)
to the 100-line asterisk servers I work with-
I run a CentOS based Trixbox server. We only have a few lines but it covers all our helplines nicely.
The only Debian install I’ve worked with was a Sarge based cut down install for a Psion Netbook so I haven’t had much of a play with Debian.
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Stock Ubuntu 10.04 on my netbook and studio desktop, and 9.04 on my laptop.
Been with Ubuntu since 5.10, tried other distros and derivatives, but I think I’m Ubuntu-for-life.
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I’ve not heard of puppet. What’s it like? Web page based?
The last server tool I set up was Nagios
I think Nagios is a reporting and monitoring tool.
Puppet (http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet) is for configuring large numbers of machines but it does it by defining how a machine should be setup and periodically trying to get things set properly.
Its a ruby bsaed framework but there is a web frontend if you need it.
Its a little hard…[Read more]
Thanks I’ll have a look. I’m always on the lookout for useful tools.
Nagios is a monitoring tool, I mentioned it because it’s got a web interface that makes running it on a remote server a doddle.