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This story paints a scary picture of what SCO may be about. Sure, Linux users all over the world deride them and laugh, but how many of you cheered when they beat Microsoft over the DOS lawsuit? Now they’re coming after Unix and Linux with the exact same tactics. One might argue the open source and Free software is different, but if the big boys desert Linux then lots of development is going to slow or stop..

These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention.

While searching for more post-it notes applications for Linux (sticky_notes doesn’t let you resize smaller if a sentence is the width of the window.. boo!) I tried a search for linux desktop and noticed a certain desktop environment was conspicious by it’s absence. That may change by the time you read this so don’t hang me if this post doesn’t make sense!

Despite earlier searches I couldn’t find any help getting Realplayer working on Red Hat 9. This solved it but now the 2fm stream is down so I can’t listen anyway! Run the following before you run Realplayer. Best way to do that is via a shell script as other apps may break with this modification.

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5

After reading this review of Orbz 2.0 I decided to try out the demo. It’s good, and fun to play. So I decided to support Linux games and bought the full version. 🙂

Well, not quite. This is a Qt frontend to GNU parted. I have a spare 20GB hardrive here so I’ll see what it can do with that!
It’s also available as an RPM on apt-get, but I’m not sure which repository. Here’s the contents of my sources.list:

rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 os updates extra
rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 os updates extra

rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 os updates freshrpms
rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/9/i386 os updates freshrpms

rpm http://utelsystems.dyndns.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 utelsystems
rpm-src http://utelsystems.dyndns.org/apt redhat/9/en/i386 utelsystems

#newrpms.sunsite.dk
rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/9.0 newrpms
rpm-src http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/9.0 newrpms

(via the ILUG!)

Here’s a brief but excellent summary of the SCO vs Linux debacle, including speculation as to the ending.. (via Dave)

This is invaluable when your gateway server crashes and it’s been a *long* time since it was last rebooted. It always happens while you’re sick too..

It’s been a while, but I released a new version of Install Sendmail today. This version now works on Red Hat 9, or other modern Linux/Unix systems with Sendmail 8.12.x (Thanks to Brent D Miller!)
I also added a Polish translation by Michal Gawron, thanks!

Nick’s adventures page is another great resource for those trying to get Linux to work with their Symbian phone. This is a great followup to my previous post on bluetooth. I might be able to to actually “send” files to the 7650 now using “OpenObex”.

Worried about the security of your Unix box? Chkrootkit will check your machine for many common rootkits. Even if you’re confident your machine hasn’t ever been compromised this might be a good app to keep in mind just in case.. Not worried are you? Take a look at the readme for one such rootkit. It’s simple to run.
(thanks to Colm for those.)