Linux and Open Source
Posts on Linux and Open Source matters.
July 8, 2015
Convert VirtualBox VM to KVM
This post outlines the procedure to convert a (Linux) vm from VirtualBox to KVM. Preferably VMs would be built on KVM directly, but this is the process used to migrate a VM built prior to standing up...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
apt and getupdates
After the keynote I saw Marc Merlin's "apt-get and getupdates" talk. Debian's apt tool allows you to keep packages up to date on a system, but doesn't really handle configuration files. That's where...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Linux.Conf.Au Day 4 - Havoc Pennington;s Keynote
After a slightly late start Saturday morning, Havoc Pennington gave the final keynote on Desktop Linux. In contrast to the other keynotes this week, the Havoc was neat and well presented, short hair,...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
DotGNU FIXIT
Linux.Conf.Au this year introduced the FIXITs which were BOF (Birds Of a Feather) sessions with a purpose, e.g. to produce a list of critical bugs in a piece of software. The first one I went to was...
ReadJanuary 18, 2004
Linux.Conf.Au Day 3 - Bdale Garbe's Keynote
Day 3 of Linux.Conf.Au got underway with Bdale Garbe's "where would you like 100,000 users to do today?" keynote. Bdale looked at a couple of large scale Linux deployments around the world and...
ReadJanuary 15, 2004
Corporate Linux Evangelism
Con Zymeris gave a talk after lunch on "Corporate Linux Evangelism". The first stage in any Linux deployment is evangelism. That is, raising awareness of Linux and its strengths (and weaknesses)....
ReadJanuary 15, 2004
Free Software: The AOL7 Story
The last talk before lunch was Graeme Merral's "Free Software: The AOL|7 Story". AOL|7 is a joint venture between AAPT, AOL and Channel Seven. Its sort of a hybrid company, part ISP, and part content...
ReadJanuary 15, 2004
Could SCO vs IBM happen to you?
Next up was "Could SCO vs IBM happen to you?" presented by Jeremy Malcolm from iLaw. After starting out with a general overview of the SCO vs IBM case, Jeremy then covered the current state of...
ReadJanuary 15, 2004
Linux.Conf.Au Day 2 - Mad Dog's Keynote
The day started out with a keynote from John "Maddog" Hall, "Programers are from Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Uranus". This was a brilliantly executed talk which carried a useful message,...
ReadDecember 18, 2002
Apache 2 Log Rotations
I've been having problems with Apache 2 segfaulting when the Red Hat Log Rotation job is run... /etc/logrotate.d/apache has been changed as follows to try and resolve this... I've added the...
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