The new Ubuntu Version “Hardy Heron” featuring Long Term Support (LTS) has gone beta and will be released in about a month.
Nagios 3.0 released
Nagios, which was voted 2007 Monitoring Application of the Year by LinuxQuestions.org has been released as 3.0 Stable.
Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager
If you use encrypted ssh tunnels a lot you may find this tool pretty interesting.
Gstm is a fully functional gui for managing all your ssh tunnels and redirects.I really like this on the EEE PC because it saves a lot of keyboard interaction.
A simple apt-get install gstm will immediately install the software package, providing you have the correct repositories.
Debian 3.1/Sarge Security Support terminated
I highly reccomend anyone still running Sarge to start planning on an upgrade to Etch, the current stable release.
Chemnitzer Linuxtage
3 more days to the Linux event in Chemnitz.
The site features a pretty cool schedule planner.
Here is my schedule 🙂
http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2008/vortraege….
OpenVPN Project launches portal site
OpenVPN the outstanding open source VPN software is going 2.0
The new project site will feature community functionality such as forums, wikis a subversion repository and many things to come.
Also there has currently been a new testing release: 2.1_rc7
check out http://www.openvpn.net
Visualizing logfiles
glTail is an attempt at visualizing logfiles in an interesting, animated way.
The script was written in ruby and uses opengl to display the log animations.
Not quite informative put perhaps a nice artistic attempt. In the real world, nothing beats the standard tools such as grep, tail and otherswhen it comes to analyzing log files.
Check out glTail at fudgie.org
Here is a video to get a first view…
Back from FrOsCon
Just came back from FrOsCon, what a weekend…
The Conference was a lot smaller than Linuxtag but the social event was very cool.
Some food and drinks were sponsored by Google and O’Reilly and the overall prices were pretty cheap 🙂
The lectures were interesting and i returned with a new bag of tricks and tools which will come in handy at work.
Another event on my yearly event schedule.
I took a few photos that can be found here
Torrent criminal legally forced to use Windows
I allways thougth the 8th amendment of the US bill of rights protected anyone from cruel and inhumane punishment.
Well i guess legaly forcing an open source user into using Windows because the government is incapable of writing tracking software to monitor him perfectly fits the label Bullshit made in the USA.
Slashdot article
Whats next? The DOJ forcing american citizens into using Windows because CIPAV may have problems spying on secure operating systems?
Besides all this and the discussion whether a non-violent crime as copyright infringement should be punished by jail time and confinement and if this sentence about forcing such criminals into using proprietary software if they want to use a computer again there is actually only one point i want to make in this post:
Is the fact that the US government is not able (or not willing) to write tracking software and other forensic foo for Linux to spy on people good marketing for Linux and other open source operating systems?
Hell yeah!!! 🙂
If you want to keep your computer and your data private take some time and stop by here for a good start
3 more days to FrOSCon…
FrOSCon is a two day conference that is all about free and open source software. There is quite a resemblance to the LinuxTag but FrOSCon is targeted more around free and open source Software independent of the operating system its running on.
As it was to be expected, several Linux and six BSD project groups will be present…
Check out http://froscon.de/?L=1 for further information…
If we get wireless access at the convention, the first pics will be up on Saturday 🙂