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bash

Bash is a shell or command language interpreter. Bash is an sh- compatible shell the incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shell.

SourceLabs includes Bash in its Self Support for Linux and Open Source Java offering.

gcc

The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++ , Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. Documentation for GCC from Gnu.Org is available here

GCC is included in SourceLabs Self-Support offering

The next planned release of GCC is version 4.3

The core developers of GCC meet every year at a summit to discuss GCC, in 2008 the GCC summit is in Ottowa

Download GCC from GNU’s FTP site.

SWiK-Source

SWiK-Source is the source code of the swik.net core engine. It is licensed for distribution under the GNU General Public License v2.

SWiK-Source is meant for people who are curious about the code that powers SWiK, for people who want to try making their own SWiK for their internal use or for some new web site, as well as for use with SourceLabs’ internal and partnering projects.

SourceLabs has released SWiK-Source as a source code release rather than a packaged release: it’s a complicated system built with a lot of assumptions for custom production servers rather than arbitrary or generic systems.

Installation

Setup and Deployment of SWiK Source is a 3 step process.
  1. Installing Dependencies
  2. Setup and Deployment
  3. Backend Deployment
Notes:

These documents are collaborative: if you run into trouble or see something wrong, fix the docs!

LiveMarks

LiveMarks is a project to show del.icio.us and other services’ bookmarks live.

On the left of LiveMarks you can see most recently popular bookmarks. On the right, bookmarks scroll by as people bookmark them.

Clicking on .oO links launches them in a new browser window.

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CentOS

CentOS or Community ENTerprise Operating System is a community-based release of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), built from the sources of RHEL. The project was started due to the fact that RedHat does not release binaries for RHEL free of charge.

Thus CentOS aims for binary compatibility with RHEL, but all copyrights and trademarked RedHat content outside of the source code, such as trademarked terms or images, is replaced.

A guide for setting up CENTOS with a number of services, including email, LAMP, dns and ftp

To echo the package management system controlled by RedHat, CentOS instead uses a mirror network to obtain release or updates through the same package management used by RHEL: yum and up2date.

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Samba

The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. The software is widely used in large and small companies that have both Unix and Microsoft-based operating systems.

Here) is the Wikipedia article on Samba.

Samba is included in SourceLabs Self-Support offering

ClamAV

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. It is included with many Linux distributions.

SourceLabs includes ClamAV in its Self Support for Linux and Open Source Java offering.

RedHat

Red Hat Linux is one of the first Linux distributions and has one of the largest market shares, particularly amongst US-based corporations.

Red Hat has since evolved into Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux: the last release of Red Hat Linux was on March 31st, 2003.

SourceLabs provides a Self-Support Suite of Tools for RedHat Linux

Debian

Debian is a free software operating system distribution. Debian releases a linux distribution called “Debian GNU/Linux”, which at over ten years in development is one of the oldest linux distributions still under active development.

Although “Debian GNU/Linux” is the most popular Debian release, Debian has also unofficially released distributions based on other open source kernels: Hurd, NetBSD, and FreeBSD.

The Debian Project

Debian hews closely to the standards and principles of the open source philosophy, only distributing software that is deemed to be truly free and open source, according to strict legal principles.

The Debian project was first released by Ian Murdock, (the ian in Debian) in 1994, it was later helmed by Bruce Perens, who left in 1998.

Debian is noted, sometimes critically, as having a slow release process. Debian continually updates and develops the project, however years can pass before the latest ‘released’, or ‘stable’ version of Debian is released. In the eight years since the first release, there have been 8 releases, the latest, ‘sarge’, being released in June of 2005. The name “Sarge” refers to the leader of the plastic solider army in “Toy Story”: all Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters.

Package management

For a package management system, Debian uses the powerful APT, (Advanced Packaging Tool), commonly front-ended graphically by the Synaptic project.

Debian based distributions

Debian is the origin of many other high profile distributions: Knoppix, Ubuntu, Mepis, Xandros and Linspire all are forks of Debian.

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution growing in popularity and based on Debian that focuses on desktop Linux. It is included in Sourcelabs’ Self-Support Offering for Linux

Ubuntu has one of the largest, if not the largest and most active user communities of any Linux distribution. Ubuntu is also one of if not the most popular Linux distributions for desktop Linux use.

Notable included packages

Ubuntu packages the GNOME project as its window manager, however side projects Kubuntu and Xubuntu also package the KDE and XFCE desktop environments as well. Ubuntu releases are timed to follow GNOME releases by roughly 1 month, and Ubunut shoots for 2 releases a year.

Like its source distribution Debian, Ubuntu uses Apt for package management, and deb packages—however Ubuntu is not always compatible with Debian deb packages. Synaptic serves as a graphical front end to the Apt package manager.

Other notable projects Ubuntu includes in the distribution are Firefox and OpenOffice.

General design

Ubuntu focuses on being usable and being up-to-date, both with new Linux kernels and new versions of GNOME. Ubuntu follows in the sudo security model used by OSX and others, users are strongly discouraged from running as root.

Ubuntu features a very smooth upgrade process from release to release that is built on the apt package management. All that is required to maintain a current version of Ubuntu is to stay up to date on packages via Apt/Synaptic. Ubuntu can be switched to Kubuntu as well through package management as well.

Ubuntu’s design theme is centered around ‘people’ – flesh tones or dark orange and iconographic pictures of humans characterize the style of the distribution.

Derivatives of Ubuntu

The Ubuntu project encourages changes and customizations of Ubuntu, such as:
  • Ebuntu – Enlightenment window manager
  • Edubuntu – aimed at education
  • Fluxbuntu – Fluxbox window manager
  • gNewSense – Fully Free Libre FSF GNU Open version of Ubuntu
  • Kubuntu KDE (instead of GNOME) window manager
  • nUbuntu – network and security
  • Xubuntu – XFCE (instead of GNOME) window manager

Bug Database: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ is on Launchpad.

IRC Support: #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net

Web Support forums: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/webforums

Additional web forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/

Mailing Lists: https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Linux

Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.

Linux is commonly available within a Linux Distribution, of which there are many, a list is maintained by the kernel.org team.

SourceLabs provides a Self-Support Suite of tools and information services for Linux.