Laurent’s Blog

Hello,

I just created/added a new module to Slax for the 11.000 Citrix Receiver.

With Slax and this module, you will have a bootable USB Disk with access to your XenApp/XenDesktop in 15 minutes !

SmallNetBuilder.com has written a very good review on the new 4 drives NAS manufactured by QNAP : The TS-409

Pros
• Hot-swappable drives
• Online volume expansion and RAID migration
• Automatic rebuild to hot spare
• Built-in LAMP server, DLNA multimedia server, FTP, iTunes
• USB support for external storage, UPS or up to 3 printers

Cons
• Media Center didn’t function well with large music library
• Thumbnails didn’t automatically generate
• No US-based phone support

New version of OpenVPN is now available for Windows, Linux and as source !!

The major new features of this version are :

* Windows Vista-ready on both x86 and x64.
* OpenVPN GUI is now packaged in the Windows installer.
* topology subnet feature, allowing intuitive tun-based VPN subnets having 1 IP address per client.
* TAP-Win32 adapter can now be opened from non-administrator mode.
* PKCS #11 features for usage of cryptographic tokens (“smart cards”).
* multihome feature to enable UDP-based multihoming of the server on multiple interfaces.
* port-share feature to allow OpenVPN and an HTTPS server to share TCP port 443.

You can find the full changelog HERE

I just tried to have a vmware-server running on Ubuntu 7.10 server and it was incredibly easy

1. Download and install Ubuntu 7.10 Server with only Openssh
2. Remove the comment for the partner repository in /etc/apt/sources.list
3. Run “aptitude update” and “aptitude install vmware-server”
4. That’s it

You’ll have as a result a light linux install in console mode with vmware-server running.

Then, install vmware-server on your XP workstation (or a linux with X) to have the VMware Server Console. So you just have to launch it and connect it to the Ubuntu Server to manage your virtual machines.

* I updated the how-to “Optware/Ipkg on QNAP TS-x09 (PRO)” with the automatic installation script provided by QNAPAndy

* Tschi from the QNAP forums provided a framework to easily add startup scritp to your QNAP NAS : Tschi Site

* With the the Optware install, Startup script Framework and Castget, I easily manage to turn my QNAP on a podcast downloader Do not hesitate to ask if you need some infos on it !

Here is a little howto on how to add ipkg to your QNAP NAS to be able to install a lot of linux apps !

This howto is a compilation of what I found on http://forum.qnap.com

–> Click Here <–

New Nice to have for every geek we are : The Asus EEE PC !

This ULTRA light “laptop” from Asus runs a modified version of Xandros Linux and with a price around 400$ is already a Top Seller in the US !

Fan site in french

Fan site in English

Video of the Beast running XP

New release of this open source PABX !

• T.38 Fax over IP passthrough support
• HTML manager
• IMAP storage of voicemail
• Jabber/GoogleTalk integration (Cooool )
• Full list of new features here

Source : OsNews

Usefull summary

http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/80

What’s new :

• Tomboy, an easy-to-use and efficient note-taking tool
• F-Spot, a photo management tool that enables tagging, photo editing and automatic uploading to on-line web management sites such as Flickr
• GNOME 2.16, which in addition to new features such as enhanced power management, makes the GNOME desktop more secure, faster and more stable
• Upstart, a replacement start-up manager offering a cleaner design, eye-catching effects and a substantially faster boot time
• The latest Firefox web browser, which offers inline spell check support in web forms, easy recovery of crashed sessions, built-in phishing detectors, enhanced search engine management with built in OpenSearch support, and better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
• Proactive security features, preventing many common security vulnerabilities even before they are discovered
• Evolution 2.8.0, which brings new features such as vertical message panes

To upgrade, just press ALT-F2 and enter :

gksu "update-manager -c"

Nice article on Postgrey installation and configuration in Debian

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/168

Very interesting article on Suse’s filesystem choice and Linux FS in general !

Linux and Open Source Blog

Update : SuSe confirmed to move to ext3 !

Wikipedia definition :

ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol developed by the Brantley Coile Company, designed for accessing ATA storage devices over Ethernet networks. It gives the possibility to build SANs with low-cost, standard technologies.

AoE does not rely on network layers above Ethernet, such as IP, UDP, TCP, etc. This means that AoE is not routable over LANs and is intended for SANs only. An alternative to iSCSI.

A good article on LinuxJournal too : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149

Thanks to smsclient and a simple PSTN line, you can easily turn your preferred Linux distribution onto a full featured SMS Gateway. It works without any problem with Proximus.