Friday roundup

18 July 2008, 11:01 am

What’s the word in open source news this week? Here’s the roundup. The Free Software Foundation listed a much-linked-to list of 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G, which led to articles like “Does open source have a new villain?” And along with a lot of customers, Lifehacker̵... read more

Tips and tricks: How do I setup device-mapper multipathing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4?

17 July 2008, 4:17 pm

Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2 and later In order to setup device-mapper-multipathing an updated system with the package device-mapper-multipath is recommended. This functionality does not exist in releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 prior to Update 2. To set up device-mapper ... read more

Tips and tricks: What is the procedure to resize an LVM2 logical volume and the ext2 or ext3 filesystem?

16 July 2008, 5:05 pm

It is recommended that a resizing procedure be tested before performing it on a filesystem that contains critical data. It is also strongly recommended that data backups are created and verified before resizing filesystems. To assist the reader in becoming familiar with the resizing procedure, the r... read more

2-for-1: Interviews with Zmanda and Linux Foundation execs and an explanation of the Firestar settlement

15 July 2008, 4:23 pm

Remember Barton George? If you kept up with our Summit posts, then you’re familiar with Sun’s Linux guy, who was all over Boston blogging, podcasting, and interviewing. He’s back home now, but still putting together podcasts from his trip. Catch the two newest ones: Talking wit... read more

Tips and tricks: What is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Number and where do I get it?

14 July 2008, 1:23 pm

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Installation Number is a 16-character hexadecimal text string used during the installation process. The installation number enables a user to install the full set of supported packages included with the subscription. For a limited set of Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscr... read more

JBoss Drools meets Hibernate

11 July 2008, 1:31 pm

Jaroslaw is a JBoss QA Engineer based in Poland, and recently published an introduction to Drools that he kindly shared with us. This second piece covers Drools (or JBoss Rules), the open source business rules engine… in this case combining it with Hibernate. This article is presented here i... read more