MySQL 5.0.87-d10 OurDelta builds are now available (32 and 64-bit):
Apart from the 5.0.87 upstream fixes there were a few minor fixes in the build environment, and one updated Percona patch. The -sail builds now include the OQGRAPH engine. Source packages are with the respective distro repos, and there are …
[Read more]It’s worth noting that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 has had an update to MySQL in the last month. This naturally means that CentOS 5 also had a similar update. It’s now bumped up to MySQL 5.0.77 (goodbye 5.0.45!; which is what RHEL5 shipped with). This is a moderate security release, so consider updating, if you can afford a mysqld restart.
Read more about the 4 CVE bugs fixed. CentOS followed suit within two weeks.
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[Read more]We’ve been able to do MySQL 5.1 binary tarballs for a bit now (great working together with Kristian Nielsen of Monty Program), but packages are bit more tricky. Peter has been working on Debian/Ubuntu while I’ve focused on RH/CentOS. The following is from an OurDelta (trial build run) RPM install on CentOS 5 x64:
$ mysql -u root Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1 Server version: 5.1.38-maria-beta1-ourdelta (OurDelta - http://ourdelta.org/) mysql> CREATE TABLE test.t1 (i int) ENGINE=PBXT; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.10 sec) mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE test.t1\G *************************** 1. row *************************** Table: test.t1 Create Table: CREATE TABLE `test.t1` ( `i` int(11) DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=PBXT DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO test.t1 values (1); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> SELECT * FROM test.t1; +------+ | i | +------+ | …[Read more]
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.3 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
OIN offers cash for patents. CentOS crisis averted. Microsoft denies GPL violation. And more.
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to.”
# Open Invention Network offered individual inventors cash for patents, and acquired patents from V_Graph.
# The H Open reported that the management problems at CentOS are now resolved.
# Sam Ramji told Network World in detail why Microsoft believes its Linux IC code did not violate the GPL (from 15m 30s).
# Canonical delivered an on-premise version of …
[Read more]When open source goes bad. Is open source a success or failure? And more.
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When open source goes bad
The H reported
on the apparent turmoil at the CentOS project, while Jay Lyman
offered the CAOS perspective. Meanwhile
Slashdot reported that Alan Cox has quit as Linux TTY
subsystem maintainer.
Success or failure?
Danny Windham, Digium CEO, …
Microsoft has announced that it is to contribute code to the Linux kernel development effort under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2. What on earth does it all mean? Here’s our take on the situation. With thanks to Jay Lyman for his contribution to the following:
Q. This is a joke, right?
A. Not at all, although if any announcement is better suited to the image above, we can’t think of one. Microsoft has announced that it is going to contribute code to Linux under the GPLv2.
Q. What code is Microsoft contributing?
A. Microsoft is offering 20,000 lines of its own device drivers to the Linux kernel that will enable Linux to run as a guest …
[Read more]UPDATED - I had to update this post after a conversation with RightScale founder and CTO Thorsten von Eicken and for Sun’s Open Cloud announcement, which are both now included below.
There has been some substantial technology and news regarding open source software in cloud computing lately. More proof that open source is reaching into nearly all aspects of enterprise and broader IT, and also reinforcement of the idea that open source software will continue to have a pervasive and disruptive impact on the way organizations of all shapes and sizes do their computing and deal with their data.
First up is RightScale, which as detailed by 451 colleague and Principal Analyst William Fellows, is up and running across the pond on Amazon’s EU EC2. As WiF reports, RightScale started with …
[Read more]In the previous post of this series we installed and set up VirtualBox. We prepared it for a default install of CentOS 5.2. This time, we cover the installation of the OS itself. Changes since the last article are an upgrade from v2.0 to v2.1, and the fact that I’m running VirtualBox on my Asus [...]
Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On CentOS 5.2
This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a CentOS 5.2 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.
