It's Monday again, and that means another Linux newsletter. If you're triskadecaphobic, you might want to save this for tomorrow. Otherwise, read on to find out what happened last week.
Emmanuel Dreyfus, NetBSD hacker and O'Reilly Network columnist, made the news recently by letting slip that he'd had some success getting Mach and Darwin binaries to run on NetBSD. His goal is to enable NetBSD users to run Mac OS X binaries. That's right, there might be an Aqua interface for NetBSD in the future. Of course, that's not the whole of the story. Find out what's going on from Manu himself, in the Emmanuel Dreyfus Interview.
If you've been following Dru Lavigne's Cryptosystems series (and you really should!), you'll know enough by now to set up a virtual private network between two free Unix boxes. Hopefully, everything just works. If not, don't despair. Her final column in this series is all about Debugging IPSec.
John Coggeshall has also returned with the third article in his Working with Files in PHP series. This week, he looks at directories and the operations they support. Read more in Working with Directories in PHP.
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The usual assortment of entertaining, provocative, and mercifully short weblogs applies. Next week, we'll discuss dynamic firewall rules and interview an open source game programmer.
Until then,
chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network
Return of the Independent Game Developer?
How different are games from other potentially open source
programs? The recent Independent Game Developers Conference lead
chromatic to ask that very question. Find out what's happening in
the game development world and why some people think independent
developers are about to become very important.
Synchronizing Networks with NTP
Accurate timekeeping is vital to accurate records, and accurate
logs are the mainstay of good system administration. Glenn Graham
explains NTP (the Network Time Protocol) and how to put it to
work on your network.
Emmanuel Dreyfus Interview
A recent update of the NetBSD Mach and Darwin binary compatibility
page left several people wondering if OS X apps now ran
nearly-natively. Emmanuel Dreyfus, one of the leaders of the
project, has graciously agreed to an interview. What's this
binary compatibility and what does it mean?
Buffer Overflows in SSH and PHP
Noel Davis looks at buffer overflows in SSH, PHP, typespeed,
Cyrus IMAP Server, Cyrus SASL library, and pdftops; and problems
with PFinger, KDE, and zkfingerd.
Slinky SliMP3: An Affordable MP3 Stereo Component
With Christmas right around the corner, what does self-respecting
geek Nat Torkington want under his tree? A hardware MP3 player
that connects to his stereo and his home network. Read on to find
out how well he likes it.
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