Sunday, 15th Jun 2008 at 17:41 (administration, linux, open source)
Tags: apt, apt-build, aptitude, debian, emerge, gentoo, ubuntu
There is a nice overview about apt-build, the package I’m talking about here. So I will not say much. Only so far as what to do to try it out. On my system gnomes system manager is fairly slow. So I gave it a try:
- install the bundle:
sudo aptitude --reinstall install apt-build
- configure your processor (dpkg-configure asks you about it)
- add deb-src to sources.list if you haven’t already
- run it on gnome-system-manager:
sudo apt-build install gnome-system-manager
And there you have it. You might want to copy the list of packages that apt-build installs via apt-get build-dep so you can mark them as auto installed using aptitude when done:
sudo aptitude markauto list_of_packages_you_copied_before
or, even easier, use apt-builds –remove-builddep option.
It really does make a difference!
If you’re really keen or you happen to have an older system just wasting away try this:
sudo apt-build world
and see what happens 
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Tuesday, 8th Apr 2008 at 14:02 (administration, linux, open source)
Tags: apache, cms, https, linux, secure, ssl, web server
Here is a forum post on how to make all incoming connections to your apache web server redirect to https, i.e. take encripted connections via ssl by using apache’s rewrite module.
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Wednesday, 14th Nov 2007 at 00:57 (open source, security)
Tags: microsoft, open source, security, zero-day
For a simple yet powerful reason why closed source is so problematic in a global connected world see eEye’s Zero-Day Tracker. Even taking into account that Microsoft has a long list of products watch out to how many times their name is listed and how long it has taken them to find a fix (in some cases they haven’t even, yet!). Consider on contrary that open source developers are not subject to time zones, i.e. beeing a global community there is no such thing as closing time for open source developers.
727 day — that is more than two years — and counting is the record. Even though the security level is low, I reckon this tells stories… I do not know, though, how complete is the list nor is anything said whether issues on Linux/BSD are recorted.
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