Friday, February 27, 2009

Novell has released SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 RC4  

Novell has released SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 11 RC4 recently. No matter SLED or SLES, you can check release information and download it now, but need to register on Novell's web site.
SLED and SLES always include old packages and release later that is because
the stability considerations.
Now, you can see many new features of SLED as following:

New Features
  1. PAM Configuration
  2. Basic SELinux Enablement
  3. Desktop
  4. Systems Management
  5. Other Changes
General Update Notes
  1. GroupWise 8 Client
  2. Kernel Package Split in Subpackages
  3. Displaying manual pages with the same name
  4. Novell AppArmor
  5. Fine-Tuning Firewall Settings
If you are interested in it, please access below link to download it.

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=_skp4YryXVs~

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Wordpress plugin for LinkWorth Service  

Some people will know how to earn advertising revenue by blog, LinkWorth is one of these advertisers who provides many solution for advertiser and publisher, you maybe hear this company from your friend. Actually, it also count with other agencies to the same ads, that is helping you sell your article or links ... and so on, That could only available to provide the php code when i used it, but it provides plugin for Wordpress right now. That is really a good news for newbie and me. It's so convenience that we can easy to use this service in Wordpress platform.
Now, you can directly download it and then active this plugin, the link address is as follows:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/linkworth-wp-plugin/

Of course the recent release of this version has improved in some places.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

How to use tail command to observe log file...  

This UNIX base system in the management of the most important place, whether it is the maintenance of Linux or FreeBSD host, we must learn how to watch log files, system problems, sometimes we will find out some problems in apache or MySQL. We can observe / var / log files to achieve the bottom to solve the problem. If you want to reach more information in /var/log, we can use the tail command.
You can refer to the following usage:

# tail -F /var/log/message (it will stop when log rotate)
# tail -f /var/log/message (continual)

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Friday, February 20, 2009

DragonFly BSD 2.2 has been released  

DragonFly BSD is a BSD operating system originally forked from FreeBSD. You can find out many changes in this version such as HAMMER changes, Hardware changes, Userland changes, Kernel changes.
The most important is ACPI support module as below.

# Add ACPI support module for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops (from FreeBSD).

# Add ACPI support module Asus laptops (from FreeBSD).


I don't know the means that it supports Lenovo S9, S10 and Asus EeePC, but we can try to install DragonFly BSD in EeePC and S10...

If you want to see the more detail release notes or download it now, please refer to the following link.

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/mirrors/
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release22/

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

A Linux Ghost software "Clonezilla"  

If you are a windows user, I believe that ghost for you should not strangers to us, it is a set of easy-to-use backup and restore software. However, if you are using linux then the set through the software to backup and restore it? Clonezilla is a best choice for you!

It not only support multiple languages can also restore the full backup linux partition. It just recently released Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-37.
If you are interested, you can go to the following link to obtain release information and download it.
http://www.clonezilla.org/

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Monday, February 2, 2009

A Linux antivirus software ~ avast!  

If you are using Linux you can download AVG or avast! Linux Home Edition.
These are free antivirus softwares for Linux.
Avast is a powerful antivirus that has released 1.3.0 Home Edition for Linux.
You can use mail account to register and then got free license. Now, please download it from the following link.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-for-linux-edition.html

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