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SourceLabs News

SourceLabs Debuts New Class of Tools for Open Source Linux and Java (Press Release) – (March 18, 2008)

CNET News – “Open-source support company SourceLabs on Tuesday launched a subscription service aimed at Linux developers and IT administrators who do their own support.”
(March 18, 2008)

O’Reilly Open Source – “Developers and open source system users will be particularly interested in a SourceLabs announcement of a service called Self-Support Suites that has been in beta since December.”
(March 18, 2008)

eWeek’s Linux-Watch – “A small start-up based in Seattle has started selling a ‘self-support’ tool for developers working with Java and/or Linux.”
(March 19, 2008)

SourceLabs is covered in the largest German IT publication – “Mit den “Self-Support Tools” will SourceLabs eine Alternative zu klassischen Supportverträgen bieten.”
(March 20, 2008)

SourceLabs builds momentum in Japan
(March 18, 2008)

Linux Magazine (Brazil) – “A SourceLabs pretende oferecer, através de ferramentas de self support , uma alternativa ao sistema clássico de suporte atualmente adotado pelo mercado corporativo.”
(March 22, 2008)

IT Jungle – “If you are a developer working at a major corporation or a small company and you want to use Linux and open source tools to create Java applications, there is very little possibility that your company is going to let you do that without getting tech support for the Linux and tools that you use.”
(March 18, 2008)

Seattle Times – “I keep waiting for a big tech company to buy SourceLabs, an open-source software and tools developer in Pioneer Square. Maybe the new product it’s launching today, SourceLabs’ Self-Support Suite, will speed the process.”
(March 18, 2008)

LinuxDevices.com – “A small start-up based in Seattle has started selling a ‘self-support’ tool for developers working with Java and/or Linux.”
(March 18, 2008)

GigaOm: Ostatic – “Could automated software support solutions come to the rescue? The jury’s still out on that, but I was interested in today’s announcement from SourceLabs regarding new Linux and Java self-support tools.”
(March 18, 2008)

Northwest Innovation – “Seattle-based SourceLabs said Tuesday that it has rolled out new tools to help support open source Java and Linux software.”
(March 18, 2008)

SysCon Media – “SourceLabs announced the availability of SASH 2 complete with a major new milestone – integrated support for Apache Tomcat.”
(Sep 9, 2007)

News about SourceLabs

Using Syslog information with SourceLabs Linux Self-Support

Below is documentation for using SourceLabs Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java to gather, organize, and search Syslog messages.

You can setup syslog to connect to the relay. In this release, we only support syslog over UDP. To set this up, you need to modify your syslogd config file. Often this is in /etc/syslog.conf

To get started, you can add

. @relayMachineName:4657

This will send all your syslog messages to a machine named relayMachineName over port 4657. Port 4657 is the default port the relay listens to for Syslog UDP messages. You can change this in the relay’s property file. This properties file is located in the ‘conf’ directory of your relay installation (e.g. /opt/sourcelabs/relay/conf).

To filter the syslog messages sent to the relay, please read the syslog documentation or man pages for more information.

Syslog-ng:

You can also setup syslog-ng to use the relay. For the current version of the relay, you will need to use UDP logging to the relay instead of TCP. To set this up, you need to modify your syslog-ng config file. Often this is in /etc/syslog-ng.conf

To get started, you can add
destination d_relay { udp("relayMachineName ", port(4657)); }; log { source(s_sys); destination(d_relay); };

Assuming that you are using a default syslog-ng configuration where source ‘s_sys’ represents all syslog messages (modify source as necessary for your configuration),this will send all your syslog messages to a machine named relayMachineName over port 4657. Port 4657 is the default port the relay listens to for Syslog UDP messages. You can change this in the relay’s property file. This properties file is located in the ‘conf’ directory of your relay installation (e.g. /opt/sourcelabs/relay/conf).

To filter the syslog messages sent to the relay, please read the syslog documentation or man pages for more information.

Find more information about SourceLabs Self-Support Suite for LInux and Open Source Java

commons-daemon

An API that can be used to run executables or java applications as Windows service or UNIX daemon.

SourceLabs covers Commons-Daemon as part of its Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

ext2

The second extended file system for Linux. Ext3 has replaced it in many distributions.

SourceLabs includes ext2 in its Self Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

openslp

An implementation of the IETF standard “Service Location Protocol.”

SourceLabs includes OpenSLP in its Self-support suite for open source Java and LInux

dhcp

DHCP stands for “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol”. It is used by clients on an IP network to obtain an IP address.

The Linux DHCP capability is covered by SourceLabs Self-Support Suite for LInux and Open Source Java

yast

YAST is an installation and system management tool for Linux and is explicitly part of OpenSuse.

Tips and Tricks including hotkeys.

SourceLabs covers YAST as part of its Self-Support for Linux and Open Source Java Suite

Guide to Linux Directory Structure

Linux: Linux Links

guest

In virtualization, guest refers to the software that is running on top of the “host” software or virtual machine. The guest software may or may not use the same operating system as the host – for example, a Linux host using Xen may have a Windows-based application as a guest.

Debian Administration Blog

pam

Pam is a pluggable authentication module for Linux.

Linux traditionally relied upon password authentication based on passwords stored in the etc/passwords directory. However, many new authentication schemes have arisen, including smart cards and replacements for the etc/passwords file. PAM makes it easier to include authentication schemes as part of a Linux implementation.

PAM is included in SourceLabs self-support offering for Linux.

PAM documentation can be found here

A good overview article published in late 2007 can be found here

Linux-kernel

The heart of the Linux operating system. The current Kernel version is 2.6.x

The Linux Kernel is covered in SourceLabs Self-support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

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.

syslog

Syslog is a protocol for sending log messags over an IP network. It has been standardized by the IETF (documents here)

Originally developed as part of Sendmail, SysLog became the defacto standard for Unix and Linux systems.

A “syslog server” or “syslog daemon” is typically the recipient of syslog messages.

SourceLabs includes the ability to capture, sort, search and correlate Syslog messages with millions of records as part of its Self-Support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

Forums

Tools

How-to

linux-self-support

If you are interested in tools and service for Linux self-support, contact info@sourcelabs.com

A lot of companies are using non-standard versions of the Linux operating system and are unable to find cost-effective support; others are using distributions based on RedHat or SUSE but are unhappy with the service they are receiving and the price they are paying. This page has resources to help companies and individuals begin to be able to “self support” themselves on Linux.

The Linux Documentation Project has a mission to provide canonical open-source documentation for Linux.

IRC provides a number of options and is the most common and popular way to seek out answers for your questions.

Howto Forge% provides a number of guides to answer common questions.

Linux.org has a categorized list of Linux How-Tos

opensuse

The openSUSE project gives Linux developers and enthusiasts everything they need to get started with Linux.

The goals of the openSUSE project are:

  • Make openSUSE the easiest Linux distribution for anyone to obtain and the most widely used open source platform.
  • Provide an environment for open source collaboration that makes openSUSE the world’s best Linux distribution for new and experienced Linux users.
  • Dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux hackers and application developers.

OpenSuse is covered in SourceLabs Self-support Suite for Linux and Open Source Java

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.

Also See

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

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

SuSE

SuSE is a Linux Distribution that is now distributed by Novell.

SourceLabs provides a Self-Support Suite of tools for SUSE

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/

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.

External Links

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.

MySQL

MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. It has a pluggable data store architecture.

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