Ask Linux.com: Specialty distros, startup scripts, and a whole new forum
Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT
In this week's junket through the latest and greatest from the Linux.com forums, we look at Linux distributions for security testing, gaming, and the visually impaired, writing your own startup scripts, and our new forum for job seekers.
Hi,
My server is Centos 6 i686.
Is it possible get an openssl download from this site
"https://www.openssl.org/source/" (which is used for 64 bit platforms)
and use it on 32 bit platforms also?
Thx,
Aigini (5 Replies)
I have a question. Actually I want to make two scripts, one is startup.sh and other is stopscript.sh
so for example, I have 5 servers.
Each server has two instances :-
abc111 - Masters
-cra4
abc222 -middle tear
-cra
abc333 -middle tear
-cra1
abc444 -middle tear
... (1 Reply)
Guys, I was planning to install Ubuntu, Fedora and Backtrack on the same computer (along with Windows 7). My Specifications are:
2.67 Core i5
4GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB HDD
I have a system running Windows 7 with 3 partitions (240, 130, 130) GBs. And I was planning on freeing out 30GB of space and... (3 Replies)
I 've a question regarding which points should be considered to compare 2 different linux distros say RedHat & Ubuntu. for a production environment
non-db applications ... any help will be appreciated .. (1 Reply)
Hi all
We have HP UX 11.23 installed on 4 RISC servers (2 oracle databases, 2 Oracle App Servers) , we are in a construction period , so the power failure may happen more than once a day.
I need to learn how to create an automatic startup services as in Windows, if we know that the services... (5 Replies)
Hi,
This will be my first time to install 5 distros in one box, the ff. are:
openSUSE 11, openSUSE11.1, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10
Now, I'm confused how would I partitioned my hard disk with a capacity of 80Gb where there is only one swap and no idea yet how to play with boot... (2 Replies)
i`m trying to fidnd a distro that is good for m but it is not that easy i discovered, so if anybody please can give som tips i would been very happy
thank you for reading:) (3 Replies)
Is it possible to use Other Distro's ( i.e Debian's or Ubuntu's ) repositories in Fedora?
If not then what should be done to make common repositories for all linux distros.
regards,
Arun Maurya (2 Replies)
Linux::Distribution(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::Distribution(3pm)NAME
Linux::Distribution - Perl extension to detect on which Linux distribution we are running.
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);
if(my $distro = distribution_name) {
my $version = distribution_version();
print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
} else {
print "distribution unknown
";
}
Or else do it OO:
use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);
my $linux = Linux::Distribution->new;
if(my $distro = $linux->distribution_name()) {
my $version = $linux->distribution_version();
print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
} else {
print "distribution unknown
";
}
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module that tries to guess on what linux distribution we are running by looking for release's files in /etc. It now looks
for 'lsb-release' first as that should be the most correct and adds ubuntu support. Secondly, it will look for the distro specific files.
It currently recognizes slackware, debian, suse, fedora, redhat, turbolinux, yellowdog, knoppix, mandrake, conectiva, immunix, tinysofa,
va-linux, trustix, adamantix, yoper, arch-linux, libranet, gentoo, ubuntu, scientific, oracle enterprise linux and redflag.
It has function to get the version for debian, suse, fedora, redhat, gentoo, slackware, scientific, oracle enterprise linux, redflag and
ubuntu(lsb). People running unsupported distro's are greatly encouraged to submit patches :-)
EXPORT
None by default.
TODO
Add the capability of recognize the version of the distribution for all recognized distributions.
AUTHORS
Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com>, <http://chorny.net> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net> Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-18 Linux::Distribution(3pm)