Dan Walsh: runuser versus su
Many years ago, we noticed SELinux having problems with the su command. Many confined domains were using su to switch user from root to some non privileged user. But this would generate lots of...
View ArticleTrever Fischer: KDE Multimedia moves to git!
Its taken a while, but the svn2git rules that convert the KDE Multimedia SVN repos to git are finally finished. The migration is scheduled to take place next Tuesday, April 3rd. So, what does that...
View ArticleFedora-Blog.de: Der Anfang vom Ende: Flash-Plugin 11.2 erschienen
Adobe hat heute die finale Version 11.2 des Flash-Plugins freigegeben und damit de-facto den Anfang vom Ende des Flash-Plugins unter Linux eingeläutet. Adobe verspricht zwar, die Version 11.2 des...
View ArticleRemi Collet: Fedora 16 experimental repository
I often work on new features to prepare some update, make some tests, etc. I have decided to make this RPM available, only for fedora 16 x86_64, which I use as main operating system. See : Dépôt remi...
View ArticleAdam Miller: NetworkManager is in @core but don't fret ....
Recently there was a not so announced change to Fedora's @core and that is that NetworkManager is now a part of it. This initially will cause the traditional *nix admins to have a moment of "WTF?" but...
View ArticleHernan Vivani: Liberando código fuente: Descarga de padrones ARBA
Esta es mi primera liberación de código fuente, y pensando en que código liberar, me puse a revisar y encontré algo exótico. Algo que muchas empresas utilizan bastante hoy en día y que si solicitan su...
View Article"Kenobi": ‘Moniz’ gets a logo!
From some time that I’ve been working on ‘Moniz’ after Martim Moniz. Moniz is meant to be a Linux remix which defaults to European Portuguese, and will be based on GNOME 3 with Cinnamon by default...
View ArticleFedora-Blog.de: PDFs mit Mozplugger direkt im Browser anzeigen
Mozplugger ist ein Plugin für SeaMonkey und Firefox, das es erlaubt, verschiedene Anwendungen direkt in SeaMonkey/Firefox einzubetten und so z.B. PDFs direkt im Browser anzuzeigen. Da Mozplugger teil...
View ArticleMax Spevack: Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03
As noted on the Amazon Web Services Blog and the EC2 discussion forums, today is the release of the Amazon Linux AMI 2012.03. You can check out the release notes for more information about new...
View ArticleKonstantin Ryabitsev: Restrict the gitolite user with SELinux
<style type="text/css"></style>One of the things I have been working on is adding SELinux user profiles to all of our non-system users. Most recently, I wrote a custom SELinux role for the...
View ArticleFedora-MY: FUDCon Flier #1
On Tuesday we created a quick flier for distributing it in WebCampKL. If you want to print it out and distribute at your place, full size here
View ArticleAdam Williamson: More hardware musings
It was time for another trip to the computer store yesterday… I replaced the second oldest bit of my desktop (the oldest, by a wide margin, is the keyboard): the mouse. I’d just been talking about how...
View ArticleMaria "tatica" Leandro: BlueAnt Supertooth Light – Pairing
Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaR96s0bdg <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jyaR96s0bdg"...
View ArticleSergio Durigan Junior: GDB and SystemTap probes -- part 1
After a long time, here we are again :-). With this post I will start to talk about the integration between GDB and SystemTap. This is something that Tom Tromey and I did during the last year. The...
View ArticleJeroen van Meeuwen: Release Early, Release Often - Kolab 3.0 Web...
One part we're doing some significant work on for Kolab 3.0 is the Kolab Web Administration Panel (or WAP, for short). Again, you ask? You may remember the look-and-feel revamp Kolab Systems performed...
View ArticleAlejandro Pérez: Comodo Certificates not valid on Google Chrome
For all Linux and Mac users, some certificates issues by Comodo are not recognize on Google Chrome as Certified Authority, the reason is a bug on the NSS library provided by Mozilla,...
View ArticleJeff Darcy: GlusterFS Algorithms: Replication (future)
In my last post, I promised to talk a bit about some emergent properties of the current replication approach (AFR), and some directions for the future. The biggest issue is latency. If you will...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: git bash prompt
I’ve been having fun recently on a new project where I put myself through all sorts of pain by nesting git submodules into team submodules into platform submodules and so on. The goal here is to be...
View ArticleRichard W.M. Jones: libguestfs: mount local
New in libguestfs ≥ 1.17.22 is the ability to mount the guest filesystem on a local mountpoint. Well, you can already do that using guestmount, but the new thing is that you can do it from the API...
View ArticleXenode Blogger: Habilitar "Multi-Core" en Inkscape 64 Bits [QuickTip]
Inkscape es un excelente programa para la edición de gráficos vectoriales, Sin embargo su peor defecto es ser bastante lento en comparación con otras alternativas ya sean comerciales o libres para el...
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