Top Stories by Martin C. Brown
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Distributed Denial of Service Attacks against SCO, or anyone for that matter,
are a clearly unacceptable activity. While many in the Open Source community
are not pleased with SCO's lawsuit against IBM, or their proposed legal
challenges aimed at Linux users, these DDoS attacks do not promote the Open
Source cause, and are not consistent with Open Source values. The Open Source
community is based on the notion that principals of free speech should be
applied to software development. DDoS attacks clearly deny the victim the
ability to communicate freely on the internet. The fact that someone, or some
group disagrees with the policies and/or practices of another person or group
does not justify this type of attack. We strongly urge whoever is resp... (more)
In this installment of the Book Rookery, Martin C. Brown speaks with Dave
Taylor, author of Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, about all the fun things you can
do with shell scripts, whether you're running Linux, Mac OS X, or even a
mainstream Unix system. Can you tell us more about the book and what's
inside?For years I've picked up different programming books and lamented that
they weren't fun... (more)
Related Links: From the Publisher of Linux Business Week
Dear Linux.SYS-CON.com Readers,
Publishing is a fickle business, and in today's world where your comments and
responses can immediately be denounced and exposed, even more so.
There has been a significant amount of discussion regarding recent Maureen
O'Gara stories published in LinuxBusinessWeek regarding the SCO/IBM case. As
we under... (more)
With their Sun Fire V40z Server, Sun is moving into new realms in three
different ways. First, it's a move onto a new hardware platform - namely the
AMD Opteron CPU. Second, it's a move into the 64-bit arena on a platform
other than their familiar UltraSPARC environment. Third is the adoption of a
mainstream Linux distribution as a primary operating system choice.
We tested a V40z with fo... (more)
Getting the design of your database right has a huge impact on a number of
issues. Primarily performance, but it can also affect other areas like the
flexibility of your database and how it integrates with the application-level
solution, such as PHP or Perl, that you're using.
Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization by Jon Stephens and Chad
Russell covers the whole gamut of datab... (more)