ALERT RedHat/CentOS/SL/PIAF OS

[wardmundy]

64-bit PIAF OS 3.6.5 with PIAF-Green Virtual Machine coming to SourceForge after 10:30 p.m. EST tonight...

 

[krzykat]

So, use it as you wish, just don't use the TM and relabel it as your own distro (since according to them, you've mod it) and then you're fine. Sounds good to me. Still a little goofy, but if that's how they want it. You'd think they'd want the credit.

 

[MyKroFt]

Is there a way to convert this to a Xen VM appliance?

 

[wardmundy]

So, use it as you wish, just don't use the TM and relabel it as your own distro (since according to them, you've mod it) and then you're fine. Sounds good to me. Still a little goofy, but if that's how they want it. You'd think they'd want the credit.

Bingo!

 

[manugmedia]

Well, there goes the neighborhood...

GomezAddams! Hahaha well said. "There goes the neighborhood!" global politika on a game console.

 

[wardmundy]

For those with public-facing servers, this is just a heads up that the new PIAF-Green 3.6.5 Virtual Machines and existing servers modded to PIAF 3.6.5 now support the YUM Security Module. By running one simple command in cron each day, you can assure that all RPMs on your server with security vulnerabilities are instantly updated. Here's the drill:

1. Install yum-plugin-security
2. Each night, run yum -y --security update

yum -y install yum-plugin-security
echo "2 2 * * * root  yum -y --security update > /dev/null" >> /etc/crontab

 

[mbellot]

For those with public-facing servers, this is just a heads up that the new PIAF-Green 3.6.5 Virtual Machines and existing servers modded to PIAF 3.6.5 now support the YUM Security Module. By running one simple command in cron each day, you can assure that all RPMs on your server with security vulnerabilities are instantly updated.

Ward - Very nice, but is there any way to know what gets updated?

Thanks to our friends in Redmond I have an exceptionally healthy fear of "automatic updates" and prefer to know what's going on with my systems so that any odd behavior can be isolated and hopefully reverted if necessary. A log after the fact for security problems would probably be OK for Linux, but nothing from the mother ship gets onto a Winders box without being fully checked out first.

 

[wardmundy]

Run yum updateinfo before you do the update or add it to cron and write it to a file like this:

yum updateinfo >> /root/updates.txt

 

[miguel]

When I did this it said please use /usr/bin/yum should I input this and after the install part?

 

[LesD]

Could someone please explain to me how an open source project can be sold/purchased? Who is there to 'sell' such a thing?

 

[james]

Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? (#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney)
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)
Does the GPL allow me to charge a fee for downloading the program from my site?
Yes. You can charge any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program. If you distribute binaries by download, you must provide “equivalent access” to download the source—therefore, the fee to download source may not be greater than the fee to download the binary.