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ServageOS (Linux) 2008-10-21 10:00

Rapid growth and cutting edge features have resulted in a brand new server Linux distribution being developed by hosting company Servage. The hosting industry is an increasingly competitive market space with many providers competing for customers. Customers are demanding more value for their money in these turbulent times why Servage has chosen to develop the first Linux Distribution especially tailored for web hosting.

With current installations customers on the same server or cluster can affect each others in a negative way. This is a challenge that traditional Linux distributions have no real solution to due to its hosting specific nature. Servage’s German branch has been working intensely to remove this obstacle.

Most noticeable feature in the new ServageOS is total process separation which provides an optimal hosting environment for each customer. Apart from the complete resource separation the ServageOS also features full IPv6 support and improved central package management. “With a growing server farm central management of updates, patches, source code and deployments has become increasingly important” Jan Boysen, head of system administration and responsible for the development of ServageOS says.

The new Linux distribution is specially designed and mainly suitable for large scale clustered server systems. Servage will upgrade its entire infrastructure to the new ServageOS. Servage expects to have completed the upgrade on all servers during November.

Servage has a long tradition of developing own innovative software to solve hosting related challenges. The company was among the pioneers in utilizing cluster technologies on the mass web hosting market. Own clustering management protocols designed especially for hosting are still maintained and successfully utilized.

Kind Regards
Steffan

Tan lleno de gusto por haber recibido el siguiente correo de parte del Sr. Carlos Castañeda Gómez del Campo, quien es el Director de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico del IMSS.

Me da un gran gusto recibir su mail e informarle que estamos en el camino de cancelar las licencias de Microsoft que tenemos en el imss e irnos al mundo de estándares abiertos. Al igual que a ustedes a nosotros nos cuesta mucho dinero esta tecnología que en realidad no nos aporta ningún valor. Ya estará usted al tanto por la prensa, porque como usted comprenderá no va a ser fácil.
Gracias
Carlos Castañeda
Director de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico

Para todos esos idiotas que piensan que nuestro gobierno no hace nada, éste está trabajando para traer los estándares libres a nuestro país y, así, ahorrar mucho en costo! Me da tanto gusto y espero poder seguir escuchando de este tipo de innovaciones en México!

Chingón por nuestro gobierno!

Well, my flash plugin in Fedora 9 wasn’t working. Besides that, I was getting a strange “s” website being looked up for when I started Firefox.

After days of debugging, I just went to: System > Preferences > Personal > Preferred Applications and selected “Firefox” instead of “Custom”, which I didn’t set in the first place.

After this, Firefox worked fine again! Just wanted to post it so, if you’re having the same problem, you know… and I don’t forget!

detox es una gran utilerí­a que sirve para quitarle toda la porquerí­a a los nombres de tus archivos.

O sea, como tu sabes, en GNU & Linux, los espacios son un poco difí­ciles de manejar, además, como los nombres son “Case Sensitive”, probablemente te gustarí­a, como a mí­, tener todo en minúsculas y con nombres “seguros”.

Bueno, detox te da todas estas opciones, no solo cambiar de iso-8859-1 a utf-8, sino, además, cambiar todo a minúsculas y quitar espacios y otros caracteres no seguros.

Para poder instalar esta herramienta tan útil, solo hay que hacer lo siguiente:

1. Instalar flex: su -c ”yum install flex”
2. Descargar detox de: http://sourceforge.net/projects/detox/
3. Crar un directorio llamado “builds” en tu $HOME: mkdir ~/builds
4. Entrar a tu directorio de construcción: cd ~/builds
5. Descomprimirlo: tar -xjf ~/detox-1.2.0.tar.bz2
6. Entrar al directorio descomprimido: cd detox-1.2.0
7. Configurar el paquete para compilar: ./configure
8. Compilar: make
9. Instalar: su -c ”make install”

Con estos pasos, podrás instalar esta gran utilerí­a y disfrutar de los beneficios que otorga!\

Chécate la página del creador en: http://detox.sourceforge.net/

I have been wondering…

What would happen if all of us, GNU & Linux users would unite as a Community? I mean, I understand that we, the FLOSS Community, are one already… but a real one?

I know this might sound a bit harsh but, I don’t see much of a unity on IRC Channels nor Forums. We like to argue and rant about which is the best distro and what software rules over the other.

I understand we only express opinions when we say “KDE is better!”, “GNOME rules!”, “Viva Gentoo!” and stuff… We, usually, miss the words “I think that…”

I would like to see, not only a Community, but a Unified Community!

This movement has gotten so far; so much improvement has been made! All of these done, one and a thousand times, reinventing the wheel, which is one of the purposes of the Open Source Community… code reuse!

Can we really unify our groups? Can all the distros work towards the same goal?

What if the software; the development was made in favor of all distros? I know Red-hat/Fedora, as well as the communities around these, invest a lot in of time and resources on helping the individual apps be better by submitting patches, participating directly in the development and perfection of all the apps included in these distros.

I’d like to see more of this. I’d like to notice that Fedora’s efforts work to benefit Ubuntu and Debian; that Gentoo’s patches are made in a generic way so the rest of us benefit; that the Ubuntu forums are not so specific for this distro and more general…

I don’t know what a more unified Community would be capable off.

I’ve dreamed of 5-10 major distros providing, as they are now, a base to make great jump starts.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had 5 major distros and, with the proper tools, be able to modify/re-edit them so I could provide this distro’s “edition” and maintain compatibility with the base distro? Ubuntu and Fedora, that I know of, are working this way.

It would be great if all the resources and power invested in maintaining sooooo many distros would be invested in these 5-10 distros! We would advance even faster!

Independent distro maintainers! Please! Work towards standardizing! Reuse what is made! Join forces and we will prevail!