This week’s techmail is Convert CVS repositories to Git which goes into the how, and possibly the why, of converting a CVS repository into a git repository, retaining all commit and history information.
Category Archives: Linux
Linux Magazine: Vote for the Linux distro you use the most
Linux Magazine is having a vote where the results will be published in an upcoming magazine: the poll.
Currently Fedora is third at 8% with Ubuntu leading at 35%, and Debian in second at 10%.
Show these people some Fedora pride!
How to create LXC system containers to isolate services
This week’s TechMail was How to create LXC system containers to isolate services which goes into further details on using LXC, using an OpenVZ template to create a new LXC container for use, and a brief rundown on how to configure it, start it, etc.
Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC
This week’s techmail is Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC. I played with LXC for the first time a little while ago when writing this tip, and it’s pretty slick. It’s not quite as feature-complete or as robust as OpenVZ, but it’s very close. It also has some benefits over OpenVZ, like direct integration with the upstream kernel. LXC is something to watch; it would be extremely cool to see things like Firefox stuffed into an LXC application container in the future, so it can really only ever mess with specific files/directories. LXC is definitely something to keep an eye on.
Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick
This weeks’s techmail was Use Live USB Creator to install Fedora 12 from a USB stick which looks at using the Live USB Creator tool to build a bootable USB stick that can be used to run or install Fedora (or any other Live CD Linux distro). Very slick stuff. Worked great for me to get Fedora 12 installed on my MSI Wind (the old hackintosh that I thought was acting up due to me bungling something with OS X). Sadly, it appears the MSI Wind is truly hooped, as the same hanging issues I had on OS X I am also getting on Fedora 12. Swapping the harddrive made no difference, so I think the Wind is a paper weight. =(
iChat-like remote desktop sharing for Linux
Does anyone know of such a beast? Last night I had to drive to my mother’s place as she insisted there was a problem with her email and needed me to come check it out. Sadly, it was due to the Buzz stuff and if she actually read the page, she’d have seen the “skip the Buzz, take me to my inbox” link. Instead, I arrived to a half-dozen firefox windows open to the same Buzz introduction page.
In light of that, I know I can setup VNC or NX or whatever to get onto her computer. That’s fine, but I’d like something like iChat that does screen *sharing* so I can see what silly thing she’s doing and prevent me from getting in the car in the first place (not that I dislike visiting my mother, understand, but this is a fairly routine occurrence that would best be done by remote since I’m not so good at hiding the irritation in my face).
I’m not aware of anything that can do this… is there something out there that will do the trick? Right now she’s running Mandriva 2009.0, but I plan to upgrade that to Fedora 12 one of these days.
