Does this script work for you?
Recently, we asked our readers to share some of their Linux scripts with us. Our first script comes to us from Diethard Ohrt, who sent us a script named “survf”. He writes: The script “survf” monitors...
View ArticleHandy script protects Linux against traffic spikes
We received another user-submitted Linux script for our “Share scripts… win Starbucks” series. This one comes from David Witham, who writes: I administer a consumer VoIP switch for a VSP. The switch...
View ArticleScript tracks Perl modules for you
Michael Hurley shares a script that he wrote called modlister. I’ll let him explain: It’s a script to tell you what Perl modules you have installed and where, to query whether you have a particular...
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Red Hat makes Java contribution — what was the hold up?
It took them about a year, but Red Hat finally got on board with Sun Microsystems and Java this week when it announced that it signed Sun’s contributor agreement that covers participation in all...
View ArticleMore Linux commands for your scripting pleasure
One of our users, James Lowden, emailed us to say that our recent 77 useful Linux commands and utilities guide missed a couple of his favorites: I’m a NetBSD guy, but I have RHEL at work. As for...
View ArticleLAMP stack story overlooks impact of cloud, reader says
My recent story on the dimming of the LAMP stack sparked a thoughtful reader response from John Locke, the manager of Seattle-based Freelock Computing. The story concluded that while an all-open...
View ArticleJava virtual machine performance: Ubuntu wins over Windows
In May we reported results of a Windows Server 2008 power test conducted by Michael Larabel at Phoronix. Last week he released the results of his most recent open source versus Windows test, a test of...
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Open source community reacts to Oracle-Sun deal
Yesterday’s news that Oracle had entered an agreement to buy Sun sent a bit of a shock wave through the open source community. After weeks of pondering what an IBM buyout of Sun would mean, the IT...
View ArticleSupreme irony: Google as open source champion
It’s easy to paint Oracle as the villain in its legal scuffle with Google. Just as the software giant–which built its fortune on pricey (dare I say proprietary?) databases–starts to deep-six OSS...
View ArticleOracle passes OpenOffice.org on to the Apache Software Foundation
Oracle has contributed the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) Incubator, marking the end of Oracle ownership of the popular Sun legacy open source project. But, Oracle may...
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