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On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock issued the first announcement of the Debian Project on comp.os.linux.development. Since then Debian has established itself as one of the most stable Linux distros and commited to the FOSS.

More info:

• First announcement
• Debian Project
• Ian Murdock

Today July 25th, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

DJBDNS, MaraDNS… and now another player in the DNS servers ground: Unbound.

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

The C implementation of Unbound is developed and maintained by NLnet Labs. It is based on ideas and algorithms taken from a java prototype developed by Verisign labs, Nominet, Kirei and ep.net.

Unbound is designed as a set of modular components, so that also DNSSEC (secure DNS) validation and stub-resolvers (that do not run as a server, but are linked into an application) are easily possible.

The source code is under a BSD License.

Unbound 1.0.0 was released in May 20.

You know that this kind of post is not usual in this site but I think it worth it. According to their web site:

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.

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the slip is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.

This people is really a pioneer in the music world. Congratullations to their fans.

This is an interesting point of view of Robin Goldfarb, a blogger from Sun’s blog hub. He points out why he and others from Sun consider Solaris to be less costly than Linux. Check it out!

From Sun Microsystems web site:

Sun announced an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases. This acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market and reaffirms Sun’s position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

More information from Sun Microsystems, Cnet and MySQL web site.

I finally have the time to dedicate in moving KarkomaOnline to the Wordpress content manager and made some changes to the look&feel. As always your feedback and posts are very welcome.

Hope you enjoy!

A note for registered users: I’m not going to port the accounts and settings from the old site as this implies a lot of work for me. Please take a minute to register again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

One year again today, July 28th, is the annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. And one year again Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! I am open to receive any kind of gifts.

This week Sun announces the availability of the latest update of the Solaris 10 Operating System.

The enhancements include the so called Zettabyte File System (ZFS), PostgreSQL, networking improvements, predictive self healing, faster reboot and many more. The announcement and what’s new links.

The OpenBSD project is requesting help to surpass its financial difficulties. As you probably know, the development team of OpenBSD is also in charge of the development of OpenSSH. Could these economic problems put in danger the continuity of OpenSSH, an essential tool for Sysadmins like you? While all this happens, the big companies (Cisco, IBM, RedHat, etc etc etc) that take advantage of the work done in OpenSSH for free are in silence. And what about you? What will you do without OpenSSH?