Earlier I posted about my efforts to get a Plone site running, together with Varnish for caching and Lighttpd for Load balancing. Our plans have now come to fruition and the site is running in its full glory at http://hhlinuxclub.org.
We’re still planning on producing a tutorial based on our experience and hope that the site will be of use to outsiders as well.
As some of you might have noticed, I license every post and page on this site under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. From this you might deduct that I’m a fan of free content (Free as in freedom, that is; not free as in free beer), and so I am.
Today I’ve been taking a look at sources for free music and thus here’s a quick round up for you.
In honour of GNU’s 25th birthday, Stephen Fry has posted a video on the gnu.org explaining Free Software in layman’s terms. Have a look above, or get the original (high-quality) OGG file from http://www.gnu.org/fry.
I’ve spent the day with a friend of mine seting up the backend for our university’s Linux Club website. The website will use Plone with caching by Varnish and load balancing with Lighttpd. This setup seems to be working quite nicely now and in time, when the website is finished we’ll try and publish a tutorial of some sort on the site. I’ll be sure to keep everyone posted about how this develops. The next step will be creating a new design for the site.
Water & Stone have completed a survey on the popularity of different open source content management systems (CMS). The survey uses a variety of metrics to assess popularity. While the results vary across different metrics, “in almost every metric, the Top 3 spots were held by Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress.”
It is also worth noting that the Water & Stone whitepaper is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC (3.0) license.
Water And Stone (PDF) [via PR-inside.com]
Once upon a time the title of this post might have been “Girl Uses Linux”, but fortunately things have moved on from that. Today there are indeed members of the fairer sex using The Penguin to power their computers, but it remains quite rare to see reviews written from their perspective. The closest we seem to get is along the lines of “I installed Linux on my girlfriend’s/wife’s/etc computer, and she said…”
Well, anyway, here’s a link to a review of a Linux-based laptop (ZaReason UltraLapSR) written by Ms. MacKenzie.
The Proliferation of Linux now supports OpenID.
What is OpenID? I think it’s simplest if I quote from the OpenID website:
OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.
You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.
How do you get an OpenID? You might already have one… Read more after the break.
Mike Beltzner, a Mozilla developer, has posted a small screencast which introduces some of the new features found in Firefox 3.0.
So if you haven’t already installed the latest release candidate (like I have), take a look at some of the new exciting features coming up.
mozillaZine [via Slashdot]
Need to convince a friend, relative or school to switch to Linux? Or yourself? Well, here to help the Linux Information Project has a list of 25 reasons why you should.
Here’s a sampler:
A little while ago Mark Shuttleworth, the main man behind the Ubuntu distribution, called for synchronised release schedules for Linux distributions.
Ars Technica has analysis on why this isn’t possible, yet.
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