Slashdot reports “Simon (S2) writes “Ubuntu Linux 5.04, code name ‘Hoary Hedgehog’, is now available. It offers the following new features: Simple and fast Installation, live CD’s for Intel x86, AMD64 and PPC, GNOME 2.10.1, Firefox 1.0.2, first class productivity software, and X.org 6.8.2.” It goes on to suggest “Read the announcement and the complete release notes.” Of course, now that it’s been posted on Slashdot, you might want to wait for their web server to stop glowing red. What you don’t want to wait for is the BitTorrent feeds. They are running pretty fast (BitTorrent gain speed with more file sharers on line). Slashdot features a set of quick links to the torrents for the US crowd (others should check http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/).
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Dartmouth / Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
The Dartmouth – Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, a chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group will meet on Thursday, April 7th, 7:00-9:00PM at Dartmouth College, Carson Hall Room L02 to hear Peter Nikolaidis present “Open Source E-Commerce with Interchange”
According to the website, “Interchange is an open source alternative to commercial commerce servers and application server/component applications. Interchange is one of the most powerful tools available to automate and database-enable your web site or build online applications. The talk will cover the basics of installing and configuring the software, as well as some demonstrations of existing sites running on Interchange.”
The Python Special Interest Group will be meeting before the main meeting at Everything But Anchovies, 603-643-6135, 5 Allen St Hanover, NH 03755, US at 5:30 PM to hear from the several Granite Staters who went to the Python conference in Washington, D.C.
The DLSLUG announcement email list is here, main web site here and the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group here.
Or maybe not…
Regular reader Kevin Cully points out that my earlier plug for “Windows Catching Up to Linux in TCO, Security” was from a fairly questionable source. Kevin points out:
The visitors over at LinuxToday don’t have very nice things to say about Laura DiDio from the Yankee Group, and author of the report. Evidently there are some questions about her credibility in regards to her past articles.
I’ve mentioned the Yankee Group several times before in this blog:
The Register: Going cold turkey with Windows, well, thinking about it, maybe
and in none too positive a light. There are lies, damned lies, statistics and “studies.” Disappointing.
Windows catching up to Linux in TCO, security
Ars Technica points to a New survey rates Windows and Linux TCO. “A new survey from the Yankee Group says that TCO for Linux and Windows are roughly the same. Some of the other findings are a bit surprising.”
CentraLUG Monthly Meeting Announcement
The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group (CentraLUG) holds free meetings that educate computer hobbyists and professionals alike about Linux, Open Source Software and Linux-related technologies. The monthly meeting will be held on April 4th at the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library in Concord, room 146 from 7 pm to 9 pm. Meetings are open to the public. Details and directions at http://www.centralug.org.
This month, Bill Sconce will debrief his trip to Washington DC and report on Python Conference happenings and prognostications: new projects, show-and-tell, an outlook for Python 3.0, one difference between Python and Perl and more! Ed Lawson will present Scribus, an Open Source desktop publishing system. An open question and answer session will be held — bring your Linux questions!
Will Python Make It Into The Enterprise?
On Slashdot, Python Moving into the Enterprise. Qa1 writes “Seems that Python is moving into the enterprise. At the recent PyCon it has become apparent that it’s not just Google, GIS, Nokia or even Microsoft anymore. The article points out that Python is increasingly becoming a perfectly viable and even preferred choice for the enterprise. More and more companies are looking at Python as a good alternative to past favorites like Java. Will we finally be able to code for living in a language that’s not painful? Exciting times!”
I knew several attendees at PyCon, although I was tied up that week (teaching MySQL) and couldn’t make it. Ed Leafe, former FoxPro MVP and host of several great email and web forums at http://leafe.com, presented the promising business development framework dabo. The Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group is building up a Python SIG (developers on all platforms welcomed) and will be holding debriefing sessions about the conference as part of meetings state-wide.
It’s a joke about it not being a joke about it being a joke…
“When they hear “world domination”, they don’t hear the irony, and thus tend to write us off as nutcases or flakes. That’s good; it gives us time and room to blindside them.”
Eric S. Raymond
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3676
MySQL 5 goes into beta
Missed posting this earlier in the week. Looking forward to giving this one a spin around the block:
MySQL takes database upgrade for test-drive. “MySQL AB has released MySQL 5.0.3, the first beta version of a major upgrade to its open source database for platforms including Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows and Mac OS X. ”
InfoWorld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/30/HNmysqlupgrade_1.html
Ubuntu 5.04 release candidate available
OSNews reports “Ubuntu Linux 5.04 release candidate. The release candidate of Ubuntu Linux 5.04 is available.”
Ubuntu is getting a lot of attention as an up-and-coming distribution. It is Debian-based, has a slick interface, comes with a try-before-you-commit Live CD, and it’s free for the download. BitTorrent links are available at the web site above. Took very little time to download the ISO files using BitTorrent – remember to leave your client running after you get your copy to share the load with the rest of the community! – since many other people were downloading too. That’s what good peer-to-peer file sharing is all about.
The IT generalist makes a comeback
Tom Yager’s weekly column in InfoWorld: Application development starts out: “The IT generalist makes a comeback. I’ve been seeing the title “IT generalist” coming back into use. It’s a welcome sight. I recall the generalist from the days when minicomputers and mainframes were being traded for less costly Unix microcomputers. Back then, the generalist was the one who had a functional understanding of the entire technical operation and many of the processes that depended on it. If you had a generalist, by any title, you may have him or her to thank for easing the transition from legacy to modernity.”
I think IT generalist is a lot less presumptuous than “Architect” particularly the capitalized ones. General Knowledge has often taken a back seat to Specialization, usually resulting in a loss of Perspective. Speaking with an experienced UNIX admin last night, and he wondered how we got into this situation where people are slapping together systems that are held together with baling wire and shoestrings; his thesis was that there was a lack of “system perspective.” I spoke with another friend just back from the US Pycon conference; a long-time Windows developer, he was amazed to see people sitting around with Powerbooks and Linux laptops and Windows laptops and all working together — he’d had no idea. He’d been sheltered in the Redmond Reality Distortion Field. C’mon out, folks, the air is great out here!
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