Arch Linux new logo released!
I switched to Arch Linux on my main laptop 3 months ago. I found Ubuntu installing too much of unnecessary common services(for others may be) and applications. On a Dell Latitude D820 with 2Gs of RAM installed I would expect much better performance.
Anyways, there was a logo competition going on at Arch Linux community and they announced the winner. The winner is Thayer Williams. Here’s the logo scetch from him:
You can check other designs at http://dev.archlinux.org/~travis/logo-contest/
Year 2007 for Linux and Open Source
Let’s sum up and see what were the biggest Linux moves in the year 2007.
- GPLv3
- Asus Eee PC
- OpenMoko
- Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
- GNOME 2.20
- Pidgin 2.0
- KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
- Xfce 4.4
- Google Desktop
- Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Mplayer 1.0 RC2
- Adobe Flash Player 9
- OpenOffice.org 2.3
- Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
- Wallmart and gOs = Everex
Did I miss anything?
Thank you Canonical!
The new version of Ubuntu was released recently, code named Gutsy Gibbon. I haven’t downloaded the ISO image but have upgraded the previous Ubuntu version. It’s all good. Especially I liked the ability to install LAMP, Mail, DNS servers as a stack. I hope it will make Ubuntu easier to install and easier to get adopted.
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Anyways, I have requested some 7.10 i386 and 7.10 64bit versions from the Shipit, and now I have them in my hands! For which I thank Canonical and the Ubuntu team!
Great job folks!
P.S.
For those who are interested you can download Ubuntu here and you can request free CDs here.
How to install Scalix on OpenSUSE 10.2
OpenSUSE 10.2 is not supported officially by Scalix, however here’s how you can skip that part and continue your installation:
./scalix-installer –override-release=suse101
If you opt for having your server relay through your ISP SMTP servers the official HOW TO is not that helpful. So I thought I will blog about it for my future reference and who knows may be somebody will benefit from it too!
vim /etc/mail/access
add the following line:
AuthInfo:your.smtpserver.net “U:you@your.smtpserver.net” “P:your_password” “M:DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN”
Then edit this file:
vim /etc/mail/linux.mc
add following line:
define(`SMART_HOST’,`your.smtpserver.net’)dnl
then run
m4 /etc/mail/linux.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
and restart your sendmail
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
That’s it! Enjoy relaying!
Yahoo! to acquire Zimbra
I’ve blogged about Zimbra here and here. When I was thinking of migration our Exchange Server it was one of the options, but I didn’t go for it because it had way too many features. Many of them we just wouldn’t use it at all, at least in my previous company.
Ok, so Yahoo! bought Zimbra E-Mail Collaboration Suite for approximately $350 million! You can find more information here, here and here.
I guess, the giants like Yahoo! and Google just buying any good software that’s in the market. The question is, which company will acquire which company? Yahoo! or Google?
Anyways, congrats to Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of Zimbra, he is now officially multi-millionaire(if he wasn’t before)!
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