Archive for July, 2008

Organizational Battle Ubuntu vs Gentoo vs RHEL & Fedora

July 29th, 2008

Part 3                                                                                                                        (Read from Part-1)

Red hat Enterprise & Fedora :

Red Hat was created by Marc Ewing in 1994 , he then partnered with Bob Young to form the Red Hat Software. The Red Hat has received several security certifications that make quite popular among the govt. Organizations.

Red Hat Enterprise Edition is Priced It has Web and Phone Support.

Red Hat has an Open Source version named Fedora , it’s community supported.

Red hat– Red Hat ’simple guess ‘, Fedora– A soft felt hat with a crown creased lengthwise

Security :

Red Hat Enterprise Edition has received The Labeled Security Protection Profile(LSPP) and Role Based Access Control Protection making it one one the most demanding secure versions of Linux out there ,but at a cost.They research and implement several Security Tools. Red hat encloses SELinux by default as discussed earlier it is highly efficient but time consuming to set on apps but mostly it comes pre-configured along with the apps in Red Hat Enterprise. Fedora Also embeds some of the security packages that are available in Red Hat like , Exec-Shield which aids in preventing worm or automated remote attacks also Compile Time Buffer Checks(Fortify_Source) are done with it to prevent any abuse of existing source code available online which could be modified , (Executable and Linkable Format) Data Hardening,Restricted Kernel Memory Access which restricts as to of how the kernel memory is overwritten.

Red Hat Security : 4.7/5

Fedora Security Rating :4.2

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Organizational Battle Ubuntu vs Gentoo vs RHEL & Fedora

July 28th, 2008

Part 2                                                                                                                        (Read From Part -1)

Gentoo (A type of penguin) :

Gentoo , this is the fastest swimming penguin. This distro is popular for the tweaks you can perform on it making it the most customizable of all. It is maintained by Gentoo Foundation. It was created by Daniel Robbins. Designed for adaptability and performance utilizing minimal system resources. Version 1.0 was released March 31^st 2002. Latest Version is 2008.0 Code-named “It’s got what plants crave “ released on July 6 2008.

Technology & Support :

Gentoo provides a wider implementation than Ubuntu on several type of systems. It is supported on several variants , these include - alpha, amd64, hppa (hppa 1.1, hppa 2.0), ppc (G4, G5, power3, power4, power5, ppc, ppc64), SPARC (sparc32, sparc64) x86 (x86, i686). This make it a perfect choice where in different variants of system implementation. The drivers support as of now has had considerable improvement. Linux 2.6.24 kernel specific hardware drivers have been added. The forums and irc also provide excellent support. However it lacks the Official Support which is a downside form an organizational view. The hits in www.distrowatch.com is 510 as on 28-07-08.

Technology Rating : 4.5/5

Support Rating : 3/5

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Organizational Battle Ubuntu vs Gentoo vs RHEL & Fedora

July 27th, 2008

Comparison The Following Three O.S in an Organizational view.

Ubuntu

Red Hat Enterprise & Fedora

Gentoo

Linus Trovalds in 1991 had written a Unix-like kernel. It was at that stage of not much use with very few utilities and s/w that came along with it , and was labeled Linux. Free Software Foundation (Richard M. Stallman, founder (started 1985)and president of the FSF) had developed several tools and applications(Under the GNU Project) by this time and was embedded into Linux. From there on to now it has attained great levels of stability ,security and portability.

Requirements Of a Corporate Organization : (priority wise ordinated)

1. Security

2. Technology

3. Performance and Reliability

4. Investment and Management

5. Installation And Troubleshooting

6. Backup and Recovery

Ubuntu “humanity to others” :

Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro. It was created by Marc Shuttleworth and sponsored by Canonical Ltd. It at present as of today Its average hits per day for the past 12 months is 2305 and in the past month as of today is 1989 - quoted from www.distrowatch.com as on 26-07-08.

There are several variants which include

Ubuntu (Desktop & Server Edition) – Gnome desktop

Kubuntu- KDE Desktop

Xubuntu , Gobuntu , Edubuntu , MID edition.

Technology & Support :

Ubuntu is primarily a Debian based OS ire it was built on the foundations of the Debian OS. It is maintained by Canonical Ltd. And is contributed by developers all over the world. It has regular patches and updates with a complete distro update of every 6 months. Even though it has a few driver issues it beats the rest in this criteria as the updates are more often and support for the new hardwares are given quicker than the other distros. Ubuntu Supports only i386 and amd 64 which is quite a downside. The Supported the Servers for few of the SUN Microsystems and System 76 has been certified by Canonical , it also is compatible with several Hp Dell and IBM. Canonical provides technical support for a nominal rate.

Technology Rating : 3/5

Support Rating : 3/5

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Once upon a time in Australia

July 22nd, 2008

When I first stepped into my university for registration i was awe-struck with the Asian people surrounding me. It was like as if i was in China ( The place where i`d love to live might sound strange but i`ve got my reasons). I did find a few Indians too but i was under the impression i was gonna be surrounded by Germans Americans and Aussies . I learnt soon that The Asians were fourth generation here . There`s even a place called china-town here guess thats there in poplar city. I knew that it was mostly European settler here Thats the reason for my surprise.

I asked a few of the as to how they got here. And found that most of them got in as refugee from Vietnam during the war. They have interesting stories . Struggled a lot to get wherever they where now. The Person who designed The entire Monash Network Dr. Lee was a victim of the above war got in as a refugee . he had do do his degree all over again as the previous one was told invalid. From there on to one of the finest Network Engineers the world has ever seen.

I googled around a bit and found the following statistics , pretty old stats though . According to the census data collected Aug. 7, 2001, there are 19,485,300 people living in Australia. Of the 22% of the population born overseas, 11.2% were born in Europe, while 5.2% were born in Asia. Census data also revealed that Italian is the most popular language other than English spoken at home, followed by Greek, Cantonese, Arabic and Vietnamese. There are a few Italians living around my place . Gotta say some of the sweetest people you would find .

In keeping with Australia’s policy of multiculturalism, census data showed that Australians identified over 200 different ancestries.
Almost 36% of the population said they had Australian ancestry, while 33.9% nominated English. The next most popular ancestries were Irish (10.2%), Italian (4.3%), German (4%), Chinese (3%), Scottish (2.9%) and Greek (2%).Indians have very low ancestry But you would find many students all around the city. Most of the people doing masters in IT or MBA and IT related would be Indians or Asian. Other Courses Like Physiology , Physcology media etc you would find Australians Dutch British . People identifying themselves as Indigenous Australians, either Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, increased 16% from the 1996 census to about 410,000. Indigenous Australians now account for 2.2% of the overall population.

Despite all the races people seem to mingle around better not sticking to a particular flock.Guess the World will soon become a better place . I wonder if any other country or city has such a wide cultural variation. Hope i get to travel around the world to see em all , like the European tourists here most of them are in a world tour.Dint find much of American tourists though i thought mostly its the Americans who travel around the world.

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Welcome To Ozzie Blogial

July 19th, 2008

Welcome TO Ozzie Blogie , This is a small Blog Network created for everyone in Australia to express anything they find intersting.

Hello mates, I would incite all of you to blog on anything you find interesting in or about Australia. As for me you can find me at Monash University pursuing my Masters in N/W. There Will be several categories coming up over this winter in our site . For now feel free to blog just about anything.

In the Life in oz zone blog on and on about your experiences in Australia and the cultures that prevail here & make sure you check for the local parties and events coming up. Techie ozzie blogs go on about the technical stuff also check this for all the up-coming Technical Events coming up in Oz. Blog Market feel free to post the items you wish to sell– just about anything; house rentals, books, gadgets,etc.; old or new.

Don`t forget you can register for a user account and do two things. You can ask for blogging permissions to an existing blog or request us for a new blog about your favourite niche. Just mail us your details, links to your blogs and explain about your blog niche and send us some sample posts. So why wait start blogging….cheers!!

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