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Looking Ahead: Slackware 11

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on June 13, 2006

. 1 Comment Tags: development, hardware, kernel, Linux, networking, Open Source, programming, redhat, servers, slackware, slackware-11, ubuntu, unix.

Crossposted from Slackware Blog.

Well, we’re getting closer to a Slackware 11 release. What kind of software goodies can we expect from this release? On May 31st, KDE released KDE 3.5.3, which has since been included in slackware-current. Unless KDE makes another release soon, I expect we’ll see KDE 3.5.3 included in Slackware 11.

Slackware 11 is still using a 2.4 kernel by default, with the 2.6.16.20 kernel in “testing”. Chess Griffin is guessing Slackware 11 will be released on June 25th. I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but Chess made that guess back in May. I am guessing that Slackware 11 will be released around August 11th. I say that because we haven’t even seen Slackware 11 Beta 1 yet.

I would expect to see a 2.6 kernel as the default kernel in Slackware 11. Having a 2.4 kernel as the default is something people like to poke fun at Slackware for. Now that kernel 2.6 has been around for a few years, I expect Patrick will set it as the default. Patrick will make the right decision, as he always has, no matter which kernel he chooses to set as the default.

Other new software that will be included in Slackware 11 is MySQL 5.0, Apache 1.3.36, PHP 4.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, and X11 6.9.0. Now, this is software that’s currently included in slackware-current, so the version numbers may change slightly before Slackware 11 is actually released.

So far, it looks like we can expect a nicely polished release of Slackware 11, as usual. I’m just hoping Patrick decides to go with a 2.6 kernel by default.

On a somewhat releated note, this guy here at wordpress.com seems to be addicted to his Slackware box. Apparently it’s caused him to miss a few lunches, he’s having trouble dragging himself away from the beauty that is Slackware.

Somebody should drag me away from my PC. Ever since I installed Slackware on it, I could not get myself to stay away from the damn thing. My eyes are hurting, and my stomach is grumbling from missed lunches.

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Quick and Easy Remote Backups

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Tyler

on July 9, 2005

in Internet, Linux, Noteworthy, Open Source and Personal

. 2 Comments Tags: backup, code, Linux, programming, scripts.

I backup my database, website, and my home directory on a daily basis to a remote server via SSH and rsync. Rsync is a tool that synchronizes directories. I also use it for grabbing current copies of slackware-10.1 and slackware-current.

It’s really easy to backup files to a remote server with these tools. I create tar archives of my needed directories and store the current ones in /opt/backups. I’ve made various bash scripts to do this on a daily basis for me automatically. After that’s complete, the code shown below is run. It transfers my /opt/backups directory to the remote server. It’s path on the remote server would be /home/tyler/backups. All you need to do is set the SERVER varaible to the hostname of the server you’re backing up to.

#!/bin/sh
SERVER=backup.server.com
rsync -avz --partial --delete --bwlimit=25 --progress --stats -e ssh \
/opt/backups tyler@$SERVER:/home/tyler/

The hardest part is finding a remote server that you’re able to backup to. If you’re lucky, your web host will allow you SSH access. There’s no need for the server end to have rsync installed. All it needs is SSH. I know BlueHost gives account holders SSH access. They’ve been hosting our sites at work for a while now and promptly gave me an SSH account. Their sites said they’d need an ID, but they didn’t require one from me for one reason or another. I backup to a freinds Linux box that’s located in a datacenter somewhere.

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PHP 5 Power Programming - For Free

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Tyler

on April 30, 2005

in Internet, Linux and Personal

. 0 Comments Tags: books, code, free, PHP, programming.

Since this book has been out for a little while now, it’s being offered for free in PDF format at the Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series site. The entire 720 pages (9.3MB) can be downloaded from this URL:
http://www.phptr.com/content/…/downloads/013147149X_book.pdf

It’s pretty kick ass they’re letting these books be distributed freely over the internet. Bruce Perens site I mentioned before actaully has a few free books that could be worth downloading. I was suprised at the number of books they’re offering. All you people just getting into PHP should probably check it out.

Moeller Electric formerly known as Klockner Moeller

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