Thursday, November 13, 2003

lxf45 october 2003 review

"Bismillahirahmanirahim"

Dalam tok zine tok highlight pasal macam ne mok speed up linux. Kira tweaking lah.

Nok lain di highlight apa
- agik pasal mozilla
- cita pasal zend studio 3
- webserver ne satu nok best
- Pasal server school, macam ne mok buat projek kat sekolah makei linux

selain ya ada juak review pasal
- News
- Mailserver
- Armari Opteron server 64 bit
- Yellow Dog 3.0 review - linux on Apple mac
- SNAP Graphics 2.0
- Revolution 2.0
- Scribus 1.0
- Infomap Navigator
- OpenGroupware.org
- Book review on FreeBSD, Cryptography, - Java & ada macam - macam agiklah.
- HotPicks software lxf
- What on earth BSD?
- Red Hat Package management
- Compiler writing - makei flex ngan Bison
- Blender tutorial
- Gimp tutorial
- PHP tutorial
- Answer kat previous questions.

Aku beli nok CD bukan DVD.
kat dalam cd ya ada FreeBSD 4.8 Unix-alike distro, stabil juak nya pun OS, mostly basic utilities dalam ya.

Okey aku just buat review nok best ajak, nok dihighlight.

native savage released
pasal real time strategy game pakei linuxers gamers. Okey juaklah, ada juak orang mok molah game makei linux, mun makei wine susah lak, masih buggy agik. nevermind lar, maybe masa datang lak ada software makei emulate nya macam ps emulator ya.

Armari RM-064-1AE 1U Opteron Server
Slim na server tok eh.. best mun ada kat rumah tok.. hehehe.. benchmark nya

hd 3.63
ab 7.33
mysql 0.70
compile 2.14
oggenc 4.81
Overal 3.72

Verdict
Features 9/10
Performance 9/10
Ease of use 9/10
lxf zine rating 9/10

aku pun rating macam best juak eh.. aku sikda hardware tok aku sik tauk mok rating macamne..

nya ada semua connectivity peripheral - keyboard, mouse, VGA, 2 USB sockets ngan 2 egik Ethernet ports, owh ngan dua Broadcom gigabit LAN cards nestling kat dalam.

Yellow Dog 3.0
wah Linux leh jalan kat PPC / PowerPC / APple deh.. mesti laju agik, sik sangup aku tengok apple ya.. biarlah aku makei pc ajak untuk FC tok. Distro linux lain boleh dipakei kat PPC macam Debian, Mandrake ngan Gentoo.

Scribus 1.0
Mun kitakorang orang office mpun, scribus tok macam publisher juak. Mun kerajaan ngecheck licence publisher kitakorang, kitakorang leh install scribus 1.0 tok, nice juaklah walaupun agik baru versi 1. Deh.. jangan expect nya perfect, but useable lah.

InfoMap Navigator Europe
Ada juak dipolah benda tok, ala - ala map online, mun sik silap terhad kat Europe map ajak.

Zend Studio 3.0
Tok php editor, muh kitakorang suka php and yes mostly php banyak pakei kat CMS opensource. Editor tok simply bagi environment programming nok kemas agik daripada kita makei VI, gedit ataupun Notepad kat windows. Every syntax nya colourfull :-) walaupun linux kurang darisegi Guinya tapi bila dah okey nya cantik
juak bah. Owh nya support PHP5 juak. best thing nya ada code analysis pakei kitakorang pentest or check ada bogus ka sik.

Roundup Server apa nok best ngan practically used.
http://www.apache.org
Apache tok dah biasa dipakei kebanyakan orang, even koperate ngan kompeni besar makei apache. cara settingnya senang ajak. sik banyak karenah.
Mostly distro linux support apache, mun sik silap ada juak distro dah installed ngan apache services. Ngekot juak apa package kitakorang pilih masa install nix.

http://www.boa.org
mun kitakorang makei embed systems, termasuk routers ngan portabale devices, makei boa sebab nya makei sikit ajak memory.

http://www.Caudium.net
mmm sik tauk aku pasal tok, tapi masalanya ngan community support sidaknya. Nya pun support ada kurang. Sebab sidaknya ada project baruk kalik. Anyway, it's good to testdrive this one also.

http://www.roxen.com
Roxen tok lebih kepada graphic. Semua setting nya point and click :-) tok bagus mun kitakoran sik suka CLI / command line interface. Mun kitakrorang serve server kitakorang makei machine lamak or pc dah outdated, iboh install tok, nya consume performance kitakorang. teruk ajak kitakorang loads kelak.

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd
thttpd tok tiny/turbo/throttling http server. Mun kitakraong server server makei usb thumbdrive aku rasa tok bersesuaianlah dengan server kitakorang ya.

http://www.kernel.org
Tux/kHTTPd
aku lum ada ngetest tok. It's totally hacking the kernel. nya pun setting kita kenak hack kernel linux kitakorang.. Best experiment juak, tapi aku sik advice kitakorang untuk messing productive server kitakorang.. biar buat kat lab okey, atau makei qemu untuk virtualization.

http://www.zeus.com
Zeus Web Server
mmm tok berbayar. Mun berbayar ya mesti lah ada advantagenya. lam kes tok nya top performance. Tok makei sidak enterprise boleh tok. untuk orang macam kita tok iboh jak, but mun nya free, why not?.. bagus ya. Contoh client sidaknya ebay.com ngan Red Nose.

mun diikut ikut kan server nok popular, dari segi costnya, dari segi supportnya, dari segi extendingnya dari segi scalibilitynya aku milih apachelah. nurut zine tok apache is best selection. untuk graft analysis on server kitakorang leh check n e t c r a f t d o t c o m


Hotpicks of this issue are
AbiWord 2.0 http://www.abisource.com
XFce 4.0 RC 2 http://www.xfce.org - tok GUI alternative nix.
IlohaMail 0.0.8 http://ilohamail.org - php kind of webmail i thinklar
KScope 0.2 http://kscope.sourceforge.net - programming editor
NaturalDocs 1.0 http://www.naturaldocs.org - makei buat doc untuk open source.
IBMonitor 1.01 http://ibmonitor.sourceforge.net/ - monitor kitakorang pun bandwith stats
Stoned 1.1.4 http://stoned.cute-ninjas.com/ - game pakei linux deh. tapi tok 3D, nice lor nix starting game area... next maybe huge, or mabe keep the WINE project.
FooBillard 2.8 http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/ - 3d pool game, pakei orang nok suka main pool kat pub.

Okey dah ready mok start tips nix kitakorang, righteous
Speed UP LInux!

1. Swap Space
check memory kitakorang
$ cat /proc/meminfo
kitakoran leh check nya pun setting kat
$ vi /etc/fstab

2. Kernel
Modules vs monolithic
kitakorang kenak pergi hack kernel kitakorang
contohnya mun kitakorang sik makei ISDN atau PCMCIA, iboh compilenya atau thick kat linux kernel configuration.

3. CPU
upgrade proccesr kitkorang contoh kat sitok disarankan kitakorang makei AMD Opteron. It's time we move to 64 bit cpu tech.

4.Hard Drives
ada duak kategori,
i. - SCSI
ii. - IDE

cara tweaknya
$ hdparm -tT /dev/hda

take note, mun hardware lamak, ada imcompatibility issue. please make buat kat test lab kitakorang :-) tercalar ajak hard disk kitakorang lak

selain daripada ya, kitakorang kenak pilih filesystem nok sesuai ngan hard disk ya lah. Ext2 laju tapi tapi kinek tok exploref2 dah boleh view ext2 filesystem, so feeling window can look into filesystem ext2, mun kitakorang pilih ext3 masalah ngan kernel, so baca bait - bait kernel upgrade kikakraong sama ada nya comapible ngan filesystem.

Raid also reduce performance. Tambah laju agik mun sik makei raid, tapi masalah nya backup kitakorang mun kitakorang makei server kitakorang untuk productivity deh... Ingat BACKUP is ESSENSIAL.

What on Earth is BSD?
wakakaka.. adik beradik nix tok.. mun dolok linux gauk juak kinek tok dah sikit - sikit bait, ada agik scene baru tok, BSD, mbiak gauk baru.. nya macam unix juak, gui lebihkurang sama, syntax lebih kurang sama, make CLI juak. mmm not yet user friendly, i think more 5-10 years agik maybe full of WINDOW$ box lah. bye - bye CLI.

Info
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.bsd.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
http://www.openbsd.org/
Red Hat Alternative Package Management

contoh macamne manage package atau RPM

Finding an rsync Server
rsync fully.qualified.domainandhostname::
aku sik faham pasal rsync tok tapi anyway, mun mok lebih lanjut check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

$ curl \ ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux \/9/en/iso/i386/shrike-i386-disc[1-3].iso

wget
$ wget \ ftp:/ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux \ /9/en/iso/i386/shrike-i386-disc1.iso

p/s wget is very popular download command. aku dengar nya ada dicompile dalam window juak.

$ ftpcopy ftp.mirror.ac.uk \ /sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/i386 \ /var/ftp/pub/apt/9/en/os/i386/RPMS.updates/

memang banyak.. tapi kita leh makei script, ada auto script macam AutoRPM scrip kat www2.autorpm.org:81

$ yum command package
tok makei yellow dow updater. Nice package improvement, walaupun masih ada masalah depedencies, tapi in future, lebih improve agik, maybe auto downloadnyapun dependencies.

zine tok juak ada Basic tutorial pasal
Flex/bison Compiler writing,

macam ne mok makei Blender. Teknik macam
Bezier Cruves, Thickening shap out, spins, steps, and turns. Semua tok basik pengenalan kat Blender, nice indeedlor, dapat juak buat rendering kat nix.

Tutorial Gimp
Basic or beginer level makei gimp. Gimp very popular among opensource, scripnyapun free. contohnya macam ne mok buat jedi light saber :-). dalam tutorial nok zine tok nya ngajar kita skinning. nice untuk buat futuristic logos, or whatever lah.

Tutorial PHP
Practical PHP Programming
lam tutorial tok macam ne mok optimise php ngan mysql kita, well mun kita cakap sorang ajak sik perlu mok tweak or rewrite program, tapi mun dah banyak n kita nak maintain server, mesti mok rewrite or recode php kita well, tok basic tutorial how we look into it. :-)

Usergroup www linux support.
site - contact
http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl - Hugo Mills
www.bristol.lug.org.uk
www.scottish.lug.org.uk
www.oxford.lug.org.uk - Alasdari G Kergon
www.kent.lug.org.uk - kevin grouves
www.brighton.lug.org.uk - johnathan swan
www.worcs.lug.org.uk
www.northants.lug.org.uk - kevin taylor
www.anglian.lug.org.uk - martyn drake
www.lug.org.uk - denny de la haye
www.scundog.org - shaun holt - sahun@scundog.org
www.moray.lug.org.uk - steward watson
www.westwales.lug.org.uk - dan field
www.wolves.lug.org.uk - jono bacon
www.edinburgh.lug.org.uk - alistari murray
www.tyneside.lug.org.uk - brian ronald
www.leicester.lug.org.uk - clive jones
www.surrey.lug.org.uk - jay bennie
www.cam-lug.org.uk
www.dclug.org.uk - simon Waters
www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk - john Heaton, Owen Le Blanc
www.herts.lug.org.uk - Nicolas Pike
www.wylug.lug.org.uk - jim Jackson
http://www.extraknowledge.org/xoops/
http://members.tripod.com/penanglug/990624/index.html
http://kuchinglug.blogspot.com/
http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/countries/malaysia/organizations/
http://www.linuxapps.org/?action=kategorie&k1=Linux+User+Groups&k2=&k3=&k4=&k5=&start=230&anzahl=10
http://wikiwikiweb.de/LugsList

last kalik mestilah blog tok hahaha
http://linuxdigger.blogspot.com
mun kitakorang windows user
http://windowsdigger.blogspot.com
for macosX user
http://macosxdigger.blogspot.com

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