Loading
Readers' Choice Awards 2009
If you pick it, they will come.
______________________
James Gray is Products Editor for Linux Journal
Webcast
How to Build an Optimal Hadoop Cluster to Store and Maintain Unlimited Amounts of Data Using Microservers
Realizing the promise of Apache® Hadoop® requires the effective deployment of compute, memory, storage and networking to achieve optimal results. With its flexibility and multitude of options, it is easy to over or under provision the server infrastructure, resulting in poor performance and high TCO. Join us for an in depth, technical discussion with industry experts from leading Hadoop and server companies who will provide insights into the key considerations for designing and deploying an optimal Hadoop cluster.
Sponsored by AMD
White Paper
Red Hat White Paper: Using an Open Source Framework to Catch the Bad Guy
Built-in forensics, incident response, and security with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Every security policy provides guidance and requirements for ensuring adequate protection of information and data, as well as high-level technical and administrative security requirements for a system in a given environment. Traditionally, providing security for a system focuses on the confidentiality of the information on it. However, protecting the data integrity and system and data availability is just as important. For example, when processing United States intelligence information, there are three attributes that require protection: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Learn more about catching the bad guy in this free white paper.
Sponsored by DLT Solutions
- RSS Feeds
- Making Linux and Android Get Along (It's Not as Hard as It Sounds)
- Using Salt Stack and Vagrant for Drupal Development
- Dynamic DNS—an Object Lesson in Problem Solving
- New Products
- Validate an E-Mail Address with PHP, the Right Way
- Drupal Is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand This
- A Topic for Discussion - Open Source Feature-Richness?
- Download the Free Red Hat White Paper "Using an Open Source Framework to Catch the Bad Guy"
- Tech Tip: Really Simple HTTP Server with Python
- Roll your own dynamic dns
38 min 42 sec ago - Please correct the URL for Salt Stack's web site
3 hours 50 min ago - Android is Linux -- why no better inter-operation
6 hours 5 min ago - Connecting Android device to desktop Linux via USB
6 hours 34 min ago - Find new cell phone and tablet pc
7 hours 32 min ago - Epistle
9 hours 57 sec ago - Automatically updating Guest Additions
10 hours 9 min ago - I like your topic on android
10 hours 56 min ago - This is the easiest tutorial
17 hours 31 min ago - Ahh, the Koolaid.
23 hours 10 min ago
Enter to Win an Adafruit Pi Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi
It's Raspberry Pi month at Linux Journal. Each week in May, Adafruit will be giving away a Pi-related prize to a lucky, randomly drawn LJ reader. Winners will be announced weekly.
Fill out the fields below to enter to win this week's prize-- a Pi Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi.
Congratulations to our winners so far:
- 5-8-13, Pi Starter Pack: Jack Davis
- 5-15-13, Pi Model B 512MB RAM: Patrick Dunn
- 5-21-13, Prototyping Pi Plate Kit: Philip Kirby
- Next winner announced on 5-27-13!
Free Webinar: Hadoop
How to Build an Optimal Hadoop Cluster to Store and Maintain Unlimited Amounts of Data Using Microservers
Realizing the promise of Apache® Hadoop® requires the effective deployment of compute, memory, storage and networking to achieve optimal results. With its flexibility and multitude of options, it is easy to over or under provision the server infrastructure, resulting in poor performance and high TCO. Join us for an in depth, technical discussion with industry experts from leading Hadoop and server companies who will provide insights into the key considerations for designing and deploying an optimal Hadoop cluster.
Some of key questions to be discussed are:
- What is the “typical” Hadoop cluster and what should be installed on the different machine types?
- Why should you consider the typical workload patterns when making your hardware decisions?
- Are all microservers created equal for Hadoop deployments?
- How do I plan for expansion if I require more compute, memory, storage or networking?
Developer Poll
Comments
Firefox
Amazing how firefox has managed to stay on top of the game. In my opinion, it's because they stuck to what made them famous and kept doing it better. What sets them apart for me is the add-ons and plugins. FireFox, then, becomes a totally customizable browser. Not too many of those around. It's lightweight, too!
Brandon
CEO, http://theticketsguide.com
Great article!!
As a linux noob, this article is of great help in finding out about whats popular in the linux scene. Thanks for this article!!
Am off to read Linux in a nutshell...
Nagios tops
Nagios is a superb product. Totally deserves it's top ranking.
Python Bloomed Once Again
Wow since 2008 Python is blooming non-STOP!!
It won again, and in other articles/forums it also won!
Here take a look:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-...
Well, I can't agree more! ^__^
LONG LIVE PYTHON!!
Favorite Primary Linux Distribution of Choice
In the category of "Favorite Primary Linux Distribution of Choice" it is a hard choice - Are we talking about servers or workstations? Maybe break them down next time. Like many people I love Ubuntu for my workstations but I use CentOS/Red Hat for my servers.
no geany in IDE category
The fact that the second place for favourite IDE is "others", means that the options given were not good enough. I wonder why geany was not included.
Are the full data available anywhere?
I'd love to see the absolute number of votes, as well as the full ranking for each category. I'm especially intrigued about how many people voted for the Favorite Linux Distribution and what's Fedora's or OpenSuse ranking.
If voters are in the hundreds, this poll is definitely meaningless. If they are in the hundreds of thousands I'd give it more relevance.
Favorite Linux Distribution
Here are the top 10:
Ubuntu (any flavor, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc.) 44.98%
Debian 9.78%
Fedora 7.96%
Red Hat 7.35%
CentOS 5.56%
Gentoo 5.50%
Novell/SuSE 5.46%
Arch Linux 4.35%
Mandriva 2.46%
Slackware 2.46%
(There were nearly 5,000 total participants in the survey.)
Carlie Fairchild is the publisher of Linux Journal.
Ubuntu
I don't see what the appeal of Ubuntu is, don't people care about technical substance rather than flashy and if I may say so, ugly, desktops? I will keep using good ol' Red Hat-based Fedora (the best distro for gaming, and a leading-edge powerhouse that respects technology and doesn't care blindy about winning people over from Windows or Mac). Parlty since I consider Fedora the desktop king for not thinking that making you use a seperate version of the OS just to use KDE or XFCE instead of GNOME is a good idea. Other than that, great results!
Ubuntu as the desktop winner
It's true of course, Ubuntu on the desktop is not as techy as CentOS or Debian...but then, if Linux is to make the jump from "geek" to "user", it needs to get on a lot more desktops.
And to do that, it must be used by more and more non-technical end-users so that those at both ends of the scale (uber-tech and tech-less) can truly benefit by it's success.
The product needs to be excellent at both. And since Ubuntu "is" Linux in every sense, yet easy enough for a green end-user, I'd say you're getting what you want, and they're getting what they need.
To me, Ubuntu's rise is very exciting, and just what the doctor ordered. I'd bet it coincides with a growing number of Linux desktops more than it steals pure technical developers away from the other distros. But then, I have no real data to support that theory. I wonder if Linux Journal does?
Ubuntu has the potential to introduce Linux to non-Linux users. And isn't that what we want?
Early on, RedHat abandoned the post of desktop champion in favor of the server. They went where the $$ were to develop for a smaller, but critical market. And they did a good job of it.
Ubuntu on the other hand, targeted developing nations' hunger for a low or zero-cost alternative to Micro-Rip-Off's bug-ridden abomination for user's desktops. And they did a good job of that.
I'm happy.
Again...NO MINT
If Linux Mint would have been an option, it would have far surpassed Debian for honorable mention. I can't believe the LJ Editors left that distro out of the running!!!
About as fair and balanced as Fox News
Mint
The Fox News comment zings a little. ;-)
We select a list of top distros based on reader feedback throughout the year and of course always encourage write-ins.
Mint has indeed been gaining some ground, as has Sabayon and a few others. Lets pose the question to web readers today but split up "favorite distro" in to "favorite distro for your desktop" and "favorite distro for your servers". I think that could also prove interesting.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-your-favorite-linux-distribution-desktop
(We'll post the server question to the site some time next week.)
Thanks for your feedback!
Carlie Fairchild is the publisher of Linux Journal.
Linux Geek
Ok, your entirely too hot to be a Linux Geek.....
You must be a computer generated BOT !!!
So we have the results from
So we have the results from the readers for the Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards for 2009! As usual there is one winner in each category with strong contenders being awarded the Honorable mentions Awards which could go up to here where they would have to get a minimum of 10% vote!! It is a wonderful way of both encouraging the users and the companies to keep on giving their best to their users who will be judging them according to their rapid prototyping performance - each complementing the other!!
Great stuff. Ubuntu + Gnome
Great stuff. Ubuntu + Gnome are doing quite well.
Deleting comments that don't
Deleting comments that don't praise ubuntu, I didn't know you were such an ubuntu fanboy.
Authors don't delete comments
We only delete comments that are obvious spam comments (typically full of odd-looking links, etc). It is possible that a legitimate comment was accidentally deleted due to some overly aggressive spam cleaning though. If this ever happens, please feel free to re-post. This is definitely not a frequent occurrence.
Katherine Druckman is webmistress at LinuxJournal.com. You might find her on Twitter or at the Southwest Drupal Summit
Nagios
Nagios is truely a great project and product.
Although Ethan should allow more input from the community and start to think of building a DB backend, so a frontend can be developed away from the program logic, also this would make 3rd party addons to be more streamlined and orchestrated through standard api's.
If you look at how old Nagios is, and what progress it has made(roadmap?), it's not very impressive compared to the other monitoring suites and where they are on this moment.
Don't get me wrong, a fantastic product but let's evolve please!
Date
Hi guys... like this article but I'm pretty sure it's only just May 2009?
Linux Compatible Online Backup and File & Folder Sync FREE
Hello,
I just wanted to inform you that SpiderOak Inc offer a free Linux compatible Online Backup for a multitude of distributions at https://spideroak.com
2GB of storage Free for life, Online Backup, Sync, Storage, Access and Share for cross-platform use (Windows, Mac and Linux) so check us out!
Daniel
SpiderOak Inc Marketing Manager
Dropbox
Dropbox (https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTU2ODAyNDk) offers the same thing...
Sorry for 3 part post, stupid spam filter robot
See gruchalski.com/2009/04/28/vote-for-flex-builder-for-linux/ and make sure you vote in bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053
(odd, stripping the http:// allows this final part to pass the spam filter)
Editors: Fancy doing an
Editors: Fancy doing an actual article on this strange decision ? Maybe you could ask what 'not enough requisition for the product' means - given you can't buy dedicated Linux licenses (only apply Windows or Mac ones) and that the bug is *the most voted* in their bug tracker, in only a week of being open.
Given "Favourite Platform
Given "Favourite Platform for Developing Rich Internet Apps" is Adobe's Air product, it seems a really poor time to find out Adobe are no longer working on the Linux version of the 'Builder' IDE for Air (and Flex) applications !
Mr. Gray's Editorializing Has No Place In This Article.
James Gray's comment "Finally, this author wishes to express his dismay at the significant number of disparaging remarks in this survey toward green solutions..." disappoints me.
While understandable, given his profession and assuming his legitimate concern for our mutual home, it has no place in a column devoted to reporting poll results. His irrelevant editorializing should have been deleted before publication by another editor. That failure also disappoints me.
Linux Journal provides value to its readers by remaining on-topic, which Mr. Gray did not do. If I care to read about the environment, I can reveal that preference by spending my time and money elsewhere.
Sometimes the delete key serves best.
I am surprised that there
I am surprised that there was even noticeable response from the not-so-green angle. I had thought that all thinking people had vanished from this planet.
I doubt Linux Mint would have beaten Debian. Mint is a great distro (Ubuntu done right, as I say), but Debian is too entrenched for now.
Yes. Clearly this has been
Yes. Clearly this has been a travesty, an insult to all people of good taste and refinement. In fact, the mere shock of such an affront to my senses has left me in a state of bewilderment. Where am I? Who are you? Why are you such an uptight jackass?
I fear I may never truly know.
I second that, he's an
I second that, he's an uptight jackass