I’m running a BOF at OSCON on Wednesday night July 21st at 7PM, with the declared purpose of adopting an Open Source Definition for Open Data. Safe enough to say that the OSD has been quite successful in laying out a set of criteria for what is, and what is not, Open Source. We should adopt a definition Open Data, even if it means merely endorsing an existing one.

Will you join me there?

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #199 for the week June 20th – June 26th and is available here.

I need a domain name for Opensource jobsite but all the good names are taken. Could anyone please suggest the best out of these 8 names:

#1 OpensourceJobsonline
#2 Opensourcejobcentral
#3 pensourceJobBank
#4 Open-sourceJobs
#5 OpensourceJobNet
#6 TopOpensourceJobs
#7 HotOpenSourceJobs
#8 OpenSourceJob (no s)

I am also open to other names.

Thanks in advance.

Jubuntu

From the Haters Gonna Mitigate the Hate dept.:
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 went to general release today. The big new feature in this release is out-of-process plugins (OOPP). This means things like Flash, Java, QuickTime, etc., all run in separate processes, so when Flash decides to crash, it won’t take your browser out with it. If Flash starts consuming all the CPU it can find, you can kill it without nuking your browser session. I’ve been using this feature since it was in the ‘nightly build’ stage, and it was still more stable than 3.6.3, just because Flash was isolated.”

I am trying to dl the newest version of qt and I dl’ed the tarball from the site. when trying to unzip i get this error:

MyMac:~/Desktop$ tar zxvf qt-mac-opensource-src-4.4.3.tar

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Please help.
that worked, thanks!

what are the advantages and disadvantages of both open source and closed source software????????????????

Im doing my assignment right now, and im looking for the information of “limitations of open source software”… Anyone can help me by providing me those information? Thankx ya!!!

We need to make an opensource/free classroom network. we need help in configuring a mail server. any software recommendations would also be helpful.
thank you! answering this by june 7 thanks again!

Petit was developed to quickly analyze syslog and Apache log files in large environments. It can also be used for word discovery within log data. It is a general purpose tool that can do hashing, word counts, and command line graphing of Apache and syslog files. It is designed to be a standard Unix tool that can be employed with pipes or by opening files. Petit works by sifting data with standard patterns and allows for custom filters and fingerprints. This leaves the analyst with data that is both varied and interesting.

Changes: This release adds a patch to allow mixed precision when Ubuntu 8.04 logs to an Ubuntu 10.04 server with high precision, support for the rsyslogd precision time format, fingerprints for Ubuntu 10.04, and a NAME section in the man page.

Release Tags: Stable

Tags: System Administration, Log Analysis

Licenses: GPLv3