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		<title>Book review:  O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Python for Unix and Linux System Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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The title alone is a mouthful, but you have to love a book that knows what it&#8217;s about.
&#8216;Unix and Linux Systems Administration&#8217;.  We all know what that is. Balding, bearded, bespectacled wizards wearing t-shirts, nestled deep in a corporate office, on a floor the CEO and VP&#8217;s never visit, tapping out incantations day and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magazine.redhat.com&blog=5816259&post=1033&subd=rhredhatmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>The title alone is a mouthful, but you have to love a book that knows what it&#8217;s about.</p>
<p>&#8216;Unix and Linux Systems Administration&#8217;.  We all know what that is. Balding, bearded, bespectacled wizards wearing t-shirts, nestled deep in a corporate office, on a floor the CEO and VP&#8217;s never visit, tapping out incantations day and night, feeding the temperamental beasts caged in the data center.</p>
<p>No? What about a growing group of dedicated, professional, hard-working experts who keep servers&#8211;and consequently the rest of the business&#8211;running smoothly?  Sure, some of them may have less than a full head of hair, or wear the occasional t-shirt to work, but if your job (which you only call &#8216;System Administrator&#8217; on your resume) involves monitoring and maintaining expensive hardware that performs critical business functions, and if the CEO only notices you or your group when things have going horribly, horribly wrong&#8230; then this is the book for you.</p>
<p>Back up a bit.  How did &#8216;Python&#8217; sneak into the title? This is a book for System Administrators&#8211;I mean, sysadmins.  These guys write bash scripts to do their laundry.  Sure, some of them may have joined the cult of Perl, and what proper Linux shop doesn&#8217;t have a zsh fanatic locked in the supply closet (in case of emergency)?</p>
<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been asleep at the keyboard for a few years, it&#8217;s hard to miss the rise of Python as a language of choice among web developers&#8211;along with old favorites Perl, PHP, and Java, and the new kid on the block, Ruby.</p>
<p>Perl is an old standby for many sysadmins, especially in those moments when you realize there&#8217;s a CPAN module that does 90% of what you need, or you&#8217;re tired of guessing whether brackets should go around the test condition in an &#8216;if&#8217; statement.  Is Python ready to take it&#8217;s place alongside Perl in a sysadmin&#8217;s toolbox?  The authors of this book make an excellent case that yes, it is.<span id="more-1033"></span></p>
<p>The first chapter starts with some exposition and justification, then segues into a comparison of simple code examples using bash, Perl, and Python.  A tour of python using the IPython interactive shell fills out the rest of the chapter.  This section, which is skippable for those with python experience and not systematic or detailed enough to count as a true tutorial, gives the reader a taste of the example-based approach of the rest of the book and a gentle introduction to Python syntax and the Python shell.</p>
<p>The second chapter, the longest in the book, dives into the Ipython shell in detail, including more detailed instructions for installation. These might have been better placed before the interactive examples in the previous chapter.</p>
<p>Chapter two then proceeds to describe IPython and many of its features in detail, and will probably teach even experienced IPython users some new tricks.  While the authors are correct to tout the impressive power of IPython, I question the wisdom of including such a detailed tutorial this early in the book.  As useful as IPython is, there is a lot of material for readers to work through here that distracts from the book&#8217;s true focus.  Much of this material may have been better introduced later on, or relegated to a final chapter or appendix.  Strangely, there is no corresponding material introducing the Python language itself.  There are, however, plenty of resources available online and in book form for those looking for a more thorough introduction to Python.</p>
<p>The third chapter gives some concrete examples of data gathering and reporting.  It covers subjects as diverse as processing log files, sending and receiving email, and generating charts and reports, providing an excellent overview of some useful Python modules.</p>
<p>However, the need for a more in-depth tutorial to Python becomes apparent in this and future chapters.  Previous chapters emphasize the usefulness of creating and using custom modules, and this chapter offers some building blocks from which readers could begin to create such a library. However, not enough information is provided about module creation; most readers would not yet be comfortable creating and using their own modules.</p>
<p>Chapter eight discusses creating python eggs, and chapter one describes how modules are imported, but nothing between the two (such as how Python treats a directory containing an __init__.py file when loading modules) is covered. Similarly, concepts such as regular expressions, list comprehensions, and exception handling are presented in example code throughout the book with little or no comment or explanation.</p>
<p>The fourth chapter reviews most of the primary networking modules in the python core library, starting with the low level socket module and proceeding up the stack through<br />
urllib and urllib2.  It then documents the usage of more specialized modules, such as Pyro as an XMLRPC replacement, paramiko for SSH support, Twisted for event-driven networking code, and Scapy for interactive and scripted packet-level network introspection.</p>
<p>The next two chapters follow the same pattern established in chapter four.  Chapter five, rather ambitiously named &#8216;Data,&#8217; is really about file and directory manipulation, and gives a good introduction to the same.  Chapter six covers SNMP programming in similar detail.</p>
<p>Chapter seven returns to the formula of chapter three, and starts with the broad goal of cross-platform management, and guides the user through the implementation of a multi-threaded ssh-based command dispatch tool.  It then describes using the PyInotify module to monitor filesystem changes.</p>
<p>Chapter seven then switches gears , discussing several techniques for use with OS X systems, then lightly touching on Red Hat-based technologies, Ubuntu, and Solaris.  Next, it covers virtualization, followed by cloud computing with Amazon and Google. Finally, it describes using Zenoss to manage Windows systems.</p>
<p>Chapter eight covers installing Python packages using setuptools and Easy Install, and then moves on to creating and distributing Python packages with setuptools and distutils.</p>
<p>Chapter nine discusses process management and threading, including recipes for proper threading and daemonizing processes.  Chapter ten covers the basics of creating simple GUIs, for both traditional and web-based applications.  Chapter eleven covers data persistence in similar detail, starting with the pickle, shelve, and yaml modules, and moving quickly into sqlite and ORM with storm and sqlalchemy.<br />
Chapter twelve provides an equally thorough introduction to making python scripts run well on the command line.</p>
<p>Chapter thirteen seems a bit out of place, as it is a discussion of callbacks, a fairly esoteric (though useful) feature of Python.  If the authors are going to devote a chapter to this feature, why is there barely any mention of most of the other Python features used throughout the book?</p>
<p>Chapter fourteen is back on track, however, with simple but useful examples for managing DNS, using LDAP, another try at Apache log parsing, and a simple FTP mirror program.</p>
<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>Overall, this book provides a grand tour of core and optional Python modules that are likely to be useful for a sysadmin, along with a bevy of practical examples.</p>
<p>However, this book does not&#8211;by itself&#8211;serve as an introduction to Python for sysadmins. It skims over many important basics of the language.</p>
<p>Those already familiar with Python will get the most out of this book.  If not, I&#8217;d recommend purchasing a beginner&#8217;s Python book as a companion, or you can rely on the many online Python tutorials and extensive documentation.</p>
<p>Similarly, while the book mentions writing and importing your own modules, and even using Python eggs and distutils to package and distribute them, a true stones-to-soup guide for creating and maintaining a library of useful modules is missing.</p>
<p>These caveats aside, if the reader has already acquired the basics of Python from another source, then Python For Unix and Linux System Administrators is likely to provide plenty of inspiration and guidance.</p>
<p>Note:  One of the book&#8217;s authors, <a href="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/author/ngift/">Noah Gift</a>, is a frequent contributor to Red Hat Magazine.</p>
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		<title>Book review: Patent Failure</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/06/12/book-review-patent-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Authors: James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: March 2008
Patent Failure examines the current state of the American patent system based on the way it has traditionally been treated&#8211;as a type of property system. Using the yardstick of property rights and the economics they influence, Bessen and Meurer analyze the costs and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magazine.redhat.com&blog=5816259&post=929&subd=rhredhatmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>Authors: James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer<br />
Publisher: <a href="http://press.princeton.edu">Princeton University Press</a><br />
Publication Date: March 2008</p>
<p><em>Patent Failure</em> examines the current state of the American patent system based on the way it has traditionally been treated&#8211;as a type of property system. Using the yardstick of property rights and the economics they influence, Bessen and Meurer analyze the costs and benefits of patents to innovators. Their qualification: &#8220;If the estimated costs of the patent system to an innovator exceed the estimated benefits, then patents fail as property.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-929"></span>The authors rightly point out that many of the criticisms of the patent system are anecdotal. We&#8217;ve all heard about the <a href="http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=14617&amp;deptid=3">peanut-butter-and-jelly patent</a>. So what are we to base reforms on then? <em>Patent Failure</em> answers that with empirical evidence, largely economic, but also from history, international comparison, and legal precedent. The book focuses quite a bit (some might say a bit too much) on the <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Court-guts-E-Data-patent/2100-1023_3-211350.html">claims brought by E-Data</a>, now a decade-old case.</p>
<p>For quite a few years, patents have been lumped in with the completely different systems of trademark and copyright under the title &#8220;intellectual property.&#8221; And, as the authors point out, the quotation marks have fallen away. Many, if not most, people now assume patents <em>are</em> property. But for certain industries, namely software, patents fail as a property system.</p>
<p>So what should we do?</p>
<p>That &#8220;for certain industries&#8221; part is a sticky point. I have to admit, it&#8217;s easy for me, and I suspect others, to forget that patents can work quite well outside of software. But because that&#8217;s where the controversy is, that&#8217;s where the media is, and so it&#8217;s the failures we hear about. Bessen and Meurer do plenty to build a separation, often making exceptions for chemical and pharmaceutical patents. Those types of patents come much closer to passing the patent-as-property test than software.</p>
<p>The authors then devote chapter 9 to &#8220;Abstract Patents and Software,&#8221; the entirety of which you can <a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/">download as a book preview</a>. They point out that &#8220;no other technology has experienced anything like the broad industry opposition to software patents that arose during the 1960s.&#8221; That is to say, this unprecedented opposition is coming from <em>within the industry the patents ideally help protect.</em> <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6VD0-3TTCD4S-4&amp;_user=10&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=10&amp;md5=e9459821eafd00b01c7a2acbc23cee9f">Software developers oppose patents on their own work</a>. You simply cannot draw the same fence around the property lines of software patents the way you would around the property boundaries of the land you own. The authors conclude:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Software patents] play a central role in the failure of the patent system as a whole. Any serious effort at patent reform must address these problems and the failure to deal with the problems of software patents&#8211;either with software-specific measures or general reforms&#8211;will likely doom any reform effort.</p></blockquote>
<p>Like not giving away the end of the movie, I&#8217;ll leave it to you to read and form your own opinion of their recommendations that follow that chapter. You can also read excerpts and some interesting discussion about the book on <a href="http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/03/do-patents-stim.html">PatentlyO</a>, a patent law blog.</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re interested in hearing more about the authors&#8217; ideas firsthand, Michael Meurer will be presenting a session about <em>Patent Failure</em> at the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008">Red Hat Summit</a> on Thursday, June 19 at 11:30.</p>
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		<title>Friday Fedora reviews wrap-up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fedora 9 was released last week, and in the wake of it, the Internet has been full of reviews. What&#8217;s even more exciting is that the vast majority of the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. So to celebrate the release, the hard work of all the contributors, and the fantastic welcome that it&#8217;s received, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magazine.redhat.com&blog=5816259&post=902&subd=rhredhatmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Fedora 9 was released last week, and in the wake of it, the Internet has been full of reviews. What&#8217;s even more exciting is that the vast majority of the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. So to celebrate the release, the hard work of all the contributors, and the fantastic welcome that it&#8217;s received, we thought we&#8217;d share some of the best of the reviews with you. <span id="more-902"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.linux.com">Linux.com</a>, like many of the reviews, not only picked up on the technical innovation that Fedora leads, but the community that is at the center of everything the project does.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/135102">http://www.linux.com/feature/135102</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Fedora distribution has a reputation for innovation, and the new Fedora 9, released today, is no exception. With features that range from easy filesystem encryption to support for the ext4 format, it includes a wide range of features that are likely to become standard in other distributions in the next six months. But for Paul W. Frields, who became Fedora project leader in February, what distinguishes the release is less the technology than the community that supports it, and how the technology contributes to the larger free software world.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>PC Pro, on the other hand, focused largely on the other two features that have been widely regarded as resounding sucesses for Fedora:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/196605/red-hat-dons-stylish-new-fedora.html">http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/196605/red-hat-dons-stylish-new-fedora.html</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fedora 9 will be put up for download today, and continues the trend of making Linux a more inviting proposition for newcomers&#8230;</p>
<p>Fedora 9 also allows you to carry a persistent version of the operating system around on a 1GB or greater USB stick, which maintains all your updates and saved files, meaning you need never leave home without your operating system again.&#8221;
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<p>And bit-tech.net won the award for the most accurate and succinct report of all:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/12/fedora-9-leaked/1">http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/12/fedora-9-leaked/1</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;With the official release due tomorrow, it&#8217;s clear that there&#8217;s plenty for fans of the Fedora distribution to look forward to.&#8221;
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<p>If you&#8217;re interested in reading more reviews about Fedora 9, the project is keeping a regularly updated list of all the reviews they come across, and you can find it at <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive/F9">the Fedora Project wiki</a>.</p>
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		<title>JBoss Seam book treat in time for JBoss World</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/02/14/jboss-seam-book-treat-in-time-for-jboss-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karsten 'quaid' Wade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JBoss Seam developers and authors Jacob Orshalick and Michael Yuan have just released some chapters from their upcoming second edition to JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE to coincide with JBoss World.  Jacob has an announcement here with more details about the second edition, and the chapters are available here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>JBoss Seam developers and authors <a href="http://solutionsfit.com">Jacob Orshalick</a> and <a href="http://michaelyuan.com">Michael Yuan</a> have just released some chapters from their upcoming second edition to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131347969?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwredhatcom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0470082917">JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE</a> to coincide with JBoss World.  Jacob has an announcement <a href="http://solutionsfit.com/blog/2008/02/13/jboss-seam-2e-preview-chapters-released/">here</a> with more details about the second edition, and the chapters are available <a href="http://solutionsfit.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/jboss-seam-2e-preview.pdf">here</a>.</p>
<p>Michael and Jacob have written Seam articles for Dev Fu (<a href="http://developer.redhatmagazine.com/2006/09/18/jboss-seam-the-next-generation-web-framework/">Michael&#8217;s</a> and <a href="http://developer.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/31/continuing-the-conversation-understanding-seam-nested-conversations/">Jacob&#8217;s</a>), and I&#8217;m looking forward to doing a full review of their book when it comes out.  Now I just need to find someone who understands Seam well enough to write that review. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Book review:  Fedora Linux Toolbox</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/01/31/book-review-fedora-linux-toolbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Frields</dc:creator>
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Christopher Negus is responsible for some of the most widely-read and well-respected mass-market books on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  You may already know of, or own, Linux Toys, its sequel Linux Toys II, or one of his miraculously up-to-the-minute Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible books.
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<p>Christopher Negus is responsible for some of the most widely-read and well-respected mass-market books on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  You may already know of, or own, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764525085?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwredhatcom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0764525085"><em>Linux Toys</em></a>, its sequel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764579959?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwredhatcom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0764579959"><em>Linux Toys II</em></a>, or one of his miraculously up-to-the-minute <em>Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible</em> books.</p>
<p>Negus has an uncanny ability to keep up with the rapid pace of development in the innovative Fedora distribution that, among other functions, serves as an upstream source for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/">One Laptop Per Child</a>, and other notable projects. If you&#8217;ve ever attended a <a href="http://redhat.com/promo/summit/">Red Hat Summit</a> or a <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon">Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)</a>, you&#8217;ll undoubtedly find him circulating through the many interesting leading-edge seminars, picking up information for the next edition of the popular <em>Bible</em> series.<span id="more-690"></span></p>
<p>Recently, Negus teamed up with author François Caen to produce <em>Fedora Linux Toolbox</em>, which gives eager command-line enthusiasts a dense but easy reference for powerful shell tools.  At about 300 pages, it also won&#8217;t bust the seams of your already overloaded computer bag. <em>Fedora Linux Toolbox</em> assumes the reader already has some experience with Linux in general, but not necessarily Fedora.  Linux novices may prefer to start with a more thorough book, such as Negus&#8217; <em>Bible</em>, or the latest edition of one of the others reviewed in <a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/013nov05/features/bookreview/">this 2005 article</a>, that spends time acquainting them with additional beginner topics.</p>
<p>Although the book is aimed at Linux users who have had moderate experience with the platform, even experts who have been using the Linux command line for many years can find new tricks in every chapter of this book.  One friend to whom I showed the book is a pretty competent system administrator who runs a bank of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers for a customer in our building. He&#8217;s been using Linux for years, but when he flipped to a random page about the process reporting utility <code>ps</strong></code>, he read for about fifteen seconds, and with surprise and joy mingling on his face, immediately exclaimed, &#8220;[Wow], I didn&#8217;t know you could do that!&#8221;  I had several epiphanies myself while reading it for this review.</p>
<p>Interesting anecdotes aside, a risk inherent in Fedora&#8217;s relentless pursuit of rapid innovation is that even up-to-the-moment guides can be left in the dust. How does <em>Fedora Linux Toolbox</em> fare, since it seems to have been mostly completed after the release of Fedora 7? Quite well, actually, in part because of its concentration on command line tools.</p>
<p>The Linux command line is renowned for its essential stability over time &#8212; the same set of core commands and power tools have sustained many a system administrator for years.  By concentrating on command line proficiency, this book avoids the &#8220;currency trap&#8221; found in many other volumes about Fedora, wherein a book slips out of sync with reality because the authors can&#8217;t keep up with the distribution&#8217;s development pace.  Certainly there are powerful command line tools off the beaten path that have emerged in the latest releases of Fedora, and won&#8217;t be seen in <em>Fedora Linux Toolbox</em>.  But the core of knowledge found in this book is enough to take a Linux enthusiast from desktop user to command line jockey in practically no time.</p>
<p>Each chapter is arranged around a central topic, which allows readers to digest smaller chunks of the book as needed, or to solve particular problems.  At a very manageable 15-20 pages per chapter, it&#8217;s possible to read a whole topic over a snack or before turning in for the night, although I suspect most Linux enthusiasts will be eager to try the material out as they read instead.  The topics aren&#8217;t limited just to command line solutions, and concisely explain the concepts behind the tools, so readers can expand their use beyond the examples.</p>
<p>The random sampling of commands I tried from areas throughout the book showed that the technical editing work was excellent, which I suspect is at least in part inherited from the years of work involved in the many editions of the <em>Bible</em> series.  A distinguishing feature of this book is that key phrases are typeset in boldface, allowing the reader to page through a chapter very quickly looking for specific topics&#8211;a very helpful feature in a book with fairly dense text.  Sometimes the amount of text emphasis is not enough to compete with other boldface on a page, such as examples that show user input in bold and system output in medium weight, but overall it&#8217;s an effective measure.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop user or administrator looking for a way to jump start your command line skills, refresh your knowledge, or live without the GUI, <em>Fedora Linux Toolbox</em> is right up your alley.</p>
<h2>About the reviewer</h2>
<p>Paul Frields is the incoming Fedora Project Leader.</p>
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		<title>Hardware review: TuxBox Computers SportCoat M750 Laptop</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/12/06/hardware-review-tuxbox-computers-sportcoat-m750-laptop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost seven years since I stopped buying desktops for personal computing, and since then,  I am always under the impression that buying a new laptop to run Linux on is a bigger challenge that it needs to be. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>It&#8217;s been almost seven years since I stopped buying desktops for personal computing, and since then,  I am always under the impression that buying a new laptop to run Linux on is a bigger challenge that it needs to be. <span id="more-597"></span></p>
<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve spent countless hours on  <a href="http://www.linux-laptop.net/">linux-laptop.net</a> (and others) trying to get the most out of my hardware working under Linux. Things like proprietary drivers for video cards, network adapters and wireless, sound and modem support were virtually always making the life of the Linux geek a bit harder.</p>
<p>This month Linux Journal put out a <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9908">laptop buying guide</a> (subscription required) for the holiday season, a nice idea for the many people out there who may be thinking about buying a new laptop that can run Linux well.</p>
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<p>About five months ago, I purchased a laptop from a fairly unknown place called <a href="http://www.allaroundgeeks.com">allaroundgeeks.com </a>. They have since re-branded their computers as TuxBox Computers, Inc. The laptop I purchased is called the <a href="http://tuxboxcomputers.com/store/customize/17">SportCoat M750</a>, which is an <a href="http://www.msicomputer.com">MSI</a> laptop that can be purchased from several vendors.</p>
<h3>Processor</h3>
<p>At the TuxBox Computers online store, you are able to customize the type of CPU that comes on your SportCoat laptop. The base install comes with a 1.8 GHz Intel Core Duo (T7100), but can be upgraded up to 2.4 GHz (T7700), and all the other speeds in between.</p>
<h3>RAM</h3>
<p>The base laptop comes with 1 GB DDR2 667MHz RAM (1&#215;1024MB), but can be upgraded to 2GB with either one or two sticks of memory.</p>
<h3>The display</h3>
<p>The SportCoat comes on a 15&#8243; Anti-Glare WXGA LCD with a max resolution of 1280&#215;800 and can be speced out with a Intel GMA X3100 or a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M-G video adapter. Both are supported under  Linux, but for the NVIDIA adapter you will need to use proprietary drivers.</p>
<h3>The keyboard and touchpad</h3>
<p>The SportCoat also comes with a full keyboard, including the Num pad, which is something I hadn&#8217;t really seen before on a laptop before.  The touchpad, which lets you scroll vertically by simply touching the right side of its surface area, works really well under Linux as well.</p>
<h3>Networking devices and bluetooth</h3>
<p>As of Fedora 7 (and 8), I have been able to get the PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller from Realtek and the Intel 3945ABG wireless adapter working out-of-the-box.  It was as simple as installing Fedora and letting Network Manager recognize the networks available on my surroundings.</p>
<p>Unlike some laptops where you can turn off wireless and Bluetooth via the BIOS, the SportCoat allows the user to turn off the wireless and Bluetooth radios using extra buttons located on the upper right corner of the keyboards. When I first booted the laptop for the first time, it was turned off by default. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out and decipher the meaning of the drawings on the buttons.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been able to connect mice and sync a cellphone on Fedora via the Bluetooth adapter.</p>
<h3>Sound</h3>
<p>With an Intel 82801G audio controller, the SportCoat has really good quality speakers and an external microphone. It also has input jacks for headphones, line-in, and microphone. It works really well on Fedora 8, and I constantly use it with VoIP software to make phone calls.</p>
<h3>Expansion slots</h3>
<p>The laptop comes with four USB ports (two in each side of the machine), one Firewire port, and an MMC/SD controller, which allows you to download your photos directly from your digital camera&#8217;s SD card (assuming you have one). It also has an express card slot.</p>
<h3>Storage</h3>
<p>Depending on your needs, you can customize your laptop&#8217;s hard drive with several choices from  60GB 5400RPM to 200GB 7400RPM. It also comes with a dual layer DVD-RW.</p>
<h3>Webcam</h3>
<p>This laptop does comes with an iSight-like camera. Unfortunately, that is the only piece of hardware that so far I haven&#8217;t been able to get working under Fedora. There are open source drivers for this Microdia webcam, but I haven&#8217;t gotten it working.</p>
<h3>Suspend/Hibernate</h3>
<p>As of Fedora 8, both Suspend to RAM, and Hibernate work out of the box. This certainly is one of the features that Linux geeks out there are always complaining about.</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>I use this laptop for my business and personal needs.  For managing my digital photos, I use Google&#8217;s Picasa2 version 2.7 beta, whicha supports direct uploads to <a href="http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html">Picasa Web</a>. I use Rhythmbox Music Player to manage my music and my iPod Classic, and when I  have some time to kill, I do some &#8220;open source&#8221; racing with <a href="http://vdrift.net/">Vdrift</a>  and <a href="http://maniadrive.raydium.org/">Maniadrive</a>)</p>
<p>Overall, you should be able to customize this laptop to be as powerful as most modern laptops that are coming from the major brands we are all aware of, but at least with this SportCoat (MSI) laptop, I know that my favorite Linux distribution will take advantage of virtually all of its functionality.</p>
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		<title>Book review:  Fedora 7 Unleashed</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/11/01/book-review-fedora-7-unleashed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The editorial team</dc:creator>
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Have you ever had deja vu?  I re-read books on occasion, because I like them, and every once in a while I&#8217;ll re-read a book that I think I&#8217;m reading for the first time.  Then I&#8217;ll sit there with this twisted-up look on my face, wondering why all the words seem so familiar. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magazine.redhat.com&blog=5816259&post=523&subd=rhredhatmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>Have you ever had deja vu?  I re-read books on occasion, because I like them, and every once in a while I&#8217;ll re-read a book that I think I&#8217;m reading for the first time.  Then I&#8217;ll sit there with this twisted-up look on my face, wondering why all the words seem so familiar.  Then I remember when and where I saw them last.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the new <em>Fedora&trade; 7 Unleashed</em> book by Andrew and Paul Hudson, and I&#8217;ve had that feeling several times.  So I&#8217;ve made my face and wracked my brain, trying to figure out how I&#8217;ve read this before.  The answer? I read <em>Fedora Core 6 Unleashed</em> and <em>Fedora Core 5 Unleashed</em> before that.  <span id="more-523"></span></p>
<p>Its unfortunate. I think these &#8216;distro tomes,&#8217; so to speak, provide a valuable service to the Linux uninitiated, and can be useful to more seasoned sysadmins interested in the latest technology a new release of a given distribution has to offer.  The unfortunate part is that both of these groups have to suffer through repetitive rehashing of methods, processes, and utilities that have been throughly documented in a multitude of locations and media.</p>
<p>To be fair, this book does some things quite well, but as I&#8217;ve looked at more and more works in its genre, I&#8217;ve come to realize that the good ones are characterized by a bias toward documenting whatever new technology is available, while the less useful ones focus more on maximizing the width of their spine with well-worn stock material.  I&#8217;m sorry to say that this book leans more toward the latter.</p>
<p>But lets not dwell on the negative (or at least let&#8217;s not start there). Theres good in everyone, and there is good in this book.  Some of you may remember that I wrote <a href="http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/01/book-reviewred-hat-enterprise-linux-5-administration-unleashed/">a review of Tammy Fox&#8217;s book, <em>Red Hat&reg; Enterprise Linux&reg; 5 Administration Unleashed</em></a>.  This book, like that one, does many of the same things rather well.  Specifically, it handles new technologies with aplomb.</p>
<p>Xen, while not new technology per se, is sufficiently in its infancy. The online documentation is still somewhat fragmented, and a concise summary of how xen virtualization operates is a perfect example of what this book excels at.  SELinux also gets very fair treatment in this book, as does the Mono programming language.   While not strictly bleeding edge, these topics are still sufficiently new that consolidated documentation is a benefit that books like this provide very well.</p>
<p>Most of the sections in this book have their usefulness.  Everyone needs to know how the <code>useradd</code> or <code>cp</code> commands work.  But I just can&#8217;t get past (and yes, I&#8217;m back to dwelling on the negative) how re-hashed so many of these chapters are.  As part of my review of this book, I went and took a quick look at the table of contents for <em>Fedora Core 6 Unleashed</em>.  Written by the same authors, its an amazing example of documentation re-use.  Several of the chapters look sufficiently similar as to be identical.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to insinuate that the information in these sections isn&#8217;t useful, it really is.  It contains information everyone needs to know.  You can&#8217;t administer a system without being able to change passwords, set up remote access, preform backups, so on and so forth.  But good gosh!  Lets just take one example:  Chapter 17, Apache Web Server Administration.  Its almost 40 pages of documentation about how to manage, configure, and tune the Apache web server to provide web pages to interested parties.  Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I typed &#8216;Apache howto&#8217; into Google.  Dum de dum&#8230;.hey, 2.550,000 hits!  I wonder if Apache has a web site&#8230;..hey what do you know?  They look like they might have some comprehensive documentation.  And Amazon indicates there are 1,285 books on sale at their site exclusively on the subject of the Apache web server.</p>
<p>The same is true of the sections on FTP, database, SSH and network file access.  Note to the authors: We&#8217;re covered.  Your material is useful and factually accurate, but I just can&#8217;t get past the fact that it&#8217;s not really necessary. You could have written a book that was half as big, was consequently less expensive, and yet still provided all the same useful content.</p>
<p>I have a feeling it&#8217;s not the authors fault.  You can pick up any number of comprehensive high-level OS documentation books, and see this.  There is some material that is just covered again&#8230;.and again&#8230;.and again.  My inner conspiracy theorist is convinced it&#8217;s more than coincidence.  I firmly believe that (a) extraterrestrials are out there, and (b) publishers of these books will encourage their authors to add content in an effort to claim more shelf space.  I think a better technical bookshelf could be constructed with a series of more targeted topics, but such an approach lowers the revenue generated by this type of books.</p>
<p>So that only leaves the final question: Should you buy this book or not?  I&#8217;ve been pretty hard on it&#8211;in my view, with good reason.  Despite that, I still think there is a demographic for whom this book would be fairly useful.</p>
<p>If you have any significant experience with a Linux distribution of any origin, I would expect that you have the skill (both technical and research-oriented) to find the information contained in this book on the web (or elsewhere). Likewise, if you&#8217;re a sysadmin, and you have experience (in a Linux or non-Linux environment) I would expect that your technical bookshelf has much greater depth, and much more targeted breadth, specific to your needs. So, clearly, this one&#8217;s not for those with experience.</p>
<p>However, if you are new to Linux and are interested in getting your feet wet, you probably don&#8217;t want to invest a fortune on reference material, or spend too many hours poking about on mailing lists or web sites putting together a reasonable set of information to get started.  If this is you, then yes, this book is a good choice.  It offers a comprehensive outline of what you need to know to work with Fedora 7, both as an end user and as an admin.  And thats quite likely why these books tend to be a perennial favorite.</p>
<p>The Linux community has a consistent influx of new users and curious onlookers who have the desire to know more. A consumer-oriented, one-stop shop might get them there faster than the community would, with its plethora of websites and arcane knowledge passed down though stories on cryptic mailing lists.  So to keep current, these books keep coming.  And if you&#8217;re new, it could be your first step into a bigger world.</p>
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		<title>Creative Commons Artist Spotlight: Philippe Mangold</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/10/17/creative-commons-artist-spotlight-philippe-mangold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg DeKoenigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, we interview French artist Philippe Mangold about his CC-licensed work available at Jamendo.com.

Why did you decide to release your music under a Creative Commons license?
I always considered art and music in particular as a way to share and build relationships with others.  When I heard about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magazine.redhat.com&blog=5816259&post=509&subd=rhredhatmagazine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>In this week&#8217;s Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, we interview French artist <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/philippe.mangold/">Philippe Mangold</a> about his CC-licensed work available at <a href="http://www.jamendo.com">Jamendo.com</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Why did you decide to release your music under a Creative Commons license?</strong></p>
<p>I always considered art and music in particular as a way to share and build relationships with others.  When I heard about the CC licences, I was immediately attracted because it fit my personal ethic. On the one hand, my works are protected under a copyright, but on the other hand I have the opportunity to do anything I want with it &#8212; and why not offer them by free downloads?  It allows me to have good visibility on the web, a visibility which leads me into relationships with people like Red Hat Magazine readers!</p>
<p><strong>How much of your work is CC-licensed?</strong></p>
<p>All of my work is available under CC license on <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/philippe.mangold/">jamendo.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Who are your musical influences?</strong></p>
<p>Actually I&#8217;m interested in all music; I&#8217;m like a kind of sponge. It influences me if i feel emotionally touched.  Of course African music and ethnic music are my strongest influences. I fell for the Swiss harpist/guitar player Andreas Wollenweider. His music turned out to be a revelation for me &#8212; a kind of world fusion with a lot of instruments.</p>
<p>My carrier as a musician is pretty weird. Basically I&#8217;m a guitarist and I come from rock music. I had the chance to get in touch with many musicians with very different influences and they handed a little of their knowlege down to me, and they all contribute to build my tastes and my styles. I&#8217;m a completely open musician and I look forward to new discoveries.</p>
<p><strong>What tools do you use to produce your music?<strong></p>
<p>I work with Cubase but I play all the VSTs. I dont program any samples or loops. This is perhaps why my creations sound <em>alive</em>, with a kind of warmth. Of course I play all guitar, electric or not; it is my favorite instrument.</p>
<p>In composing my music I am very instinctive; despite my high musical level, I completely lean on a kind of intuition that allows me to build a sonic landscape to make the listener feel great emotion.</p>
<p><strong>Are you touring, and if so, how can readers find you?</strong></p>
<p>Currently touring is a project that I&#8217;m not able to realize, since I can&#8217;t afford it right now.  But to play the <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/2334/">Voyage Dans L&#8217;ether</a> live &#8212; it would be an amazing experience.</p>
<p><strong>Anything you&#8217;d like our readers to know about you?</strong></p>
<p>I wish a brilliant future to Red Hat Magazine readers, and I advise all readers to keep an ear on the Jamendo platform. There are many talents and so many styles there!</p>
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		<title>Creative Commons Artist Spotlight: Monsieur Madame</title>
		<link>http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/09/27/creative-commons-artist-spotlight-monsieur-madame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg DeKoenigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, we interview French artists Monsieur Madame about their CC-licensed album Et Maintenant, available at Jamendo.com.

Why did you decide to release your music under a Creative Commons license?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>In this week&#8217;s Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, we interview French artists <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/monsieurmadame/">Monsieur Madame</a> about their CC-licensed album <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3467/">Et Maintenant</a>, available at <a href="http://www.jamendo.com">Jamendo.com</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Why did you decide to release your music under a Creative Commons license?</strong></p>
<p>Because we just want to be heard. It&#8217;s hard to sell music because there are a lot of bands. We just like to play live music and share it with people.  The Creative Commons is a good way to share directly.</p>
<p><strong>How much of your work is CC-licensed?</strong></p>
<p>All tracks of the CD (<a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/3467/">Et Maintenant</a>) are CC-licensed. The new ones, not yet.</p>
<p><strong>Who are your musical influences?</strong></p>
<p>Maybe are we influenced by French bands, such as Rita Mitsouko or Thomas Fersen, for example.</p>
<p><strong>What tools do you use to produce your music?</strong></p>
<p>A guitar and a pen (to write songs!)</p>
<p><strong>Which of your CC-licensed songs is your favorite?</strong></p>
<p>I think that it&#8217;s &#8220;Du sable entre les doigts de pied&#8221; because it&#8217;s sweet!</p>
<p><strong>Are you touring, and if so, how can readers find you?</strong></p>
<p>No, for the moment. We are trying to play in live once a month in Paris, in the <a href="http://www.fra.cityvox.fr/bars-et-boites_paris/bibax_200050683/Profil-Lieu">Bibax Bar</a> (10th arrondissement) for example.</p>
<p><strong>Anything you&#8217;d like our readers to know about you?</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re going to work on a new CD in october. We&#8217;ve already got 12 new songs so&#8230; Let&#8217;s go!</p>
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		<title>Creative Commons Artist Spotlight: Convey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg DeKoenigsberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re proud to introduce a new feature: Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, which Red Hat Magazine will be producing in association with jamendo.com.  Every week, we will introduce our readers to emerging musical artists who choose to release their work under Creative Commons licenses.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Today we&#8217;re proud to introduce a new feature: Creative Commons Artist Spotlight, which Red Hat Magazine will be producing in association with <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/">jamendo.com</a>.  Every week, we will introduce our readers to emerging musical artists who choose to release their work under Creative Commons licenses.</p>
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<p>This week&#8217;s band, Convey, hails from Acton, Massachusetts.  Their debut EP can be found at <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6018/">jamendo.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to release your music under a Creative Commons license?</strong></p>
<p>We felt as though Creative Commons gave us the freedom to distribute our music, while giving our fans the ability to listen to and share it.  On a larger scale, we believe that CC is the future of the record industry as a whole.  In most cases, musical artists make the majority of their living off live performances and merchandizing, while record companies benefit off of the artists&#8217; record sales.  Hopefully, someday, artists will not have to rely on record companies for publicity.</p>
<p><strong>How much of your work is CC-licensed?</strong></p>
<p>All of our recorded material is CC-licensed, and we are planning on recording more.</p>
<p><strong>Who are your musical influences?</strong></p>
<p>Circa Survive, Thrice, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Incubus, P.O.D., Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Saosin, Disturbed, Sevendust, RA, System of a Down, Breaking Benjamin, Muse, Billy Talent, Moneen.</p>
<p><strong>What tools do you use to produce your music?</strong></p>
<p>We recorded at a local recording studio, and then advertise using live performance, Myspace, Facebook, Last.fm, our website <a href="http://www.conveymusic.com">(www.conveymusic.com)</a>, and, of course, Jamendo!</p>
<p><strong>Which of your CC-licensed songs is your favorite?</strong></p>
<p>We love them as if they were our rabbits.  Could YOU pick a favorite?</p>
<p><strong>Are you touring, and if so, how can readers find you?</strong></p>
<p>We are planning a tour summer of 2008. Check <a href="http://www.conveymusic.com">www.conveymusic.com</a> for updates!</p>
<p><strong>Anything you&#8217;d like our readers to know about you?</strong></p>
<p>Will is a lefty.  If he was British, he would be Paul McCartney.  Ben is Jewish, like Matis Yahu.  Jahan has a higher metabolism than anyone I know.  Dave is sinister beast.  Chris is Italian, like Tony Soprano and Frank Sinatra.  We all live in suburbs and enjoy chicken caesar salads at Sorrento&#8217;s Pizza.  To contact our manager, Peter, call 1-339-223-9666.</p>
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