A merger between the Open Source Development Lab and the Free Standards Group yields a new organization to advance open source software and Linux: The Linux Foundation. Executive Director for the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin reveals how the new organization plans to carry forward the missions and goals of its two predecessor organizations. Then we briefly talk with Novell’s Markus Rex about what this merger might mean to Novell and SUSE Linux.

Time: 35:55

Size: 24.6 MB

Segment Times

Interview with Jim Zemlin: 1:10-24:10

Interview with Markus Rex (Novell): 25:10-34:20

Links for this Episode

Linux Foundation

Funny Little Men Behind the Curtain

Yes, you raise a valid point, dear listener: This edition really does have all the trappings of being a full NOA episode. Which would make it the first episode of the 2007 season. However, we’re still not quite ready to kick into full gear and start releasing weekly shows again.

Overview

Dale Olds tells about his role one the … and their efforts to get Microsoft to open up more about their identity and authentication systems.

Time: 11:05

Size: 34.4 MB

Notes for this Episode:

Ted’s real goal on this one was to get Dale to rant about Microsoft and use a lot of descriptive “it’s like pulling teeth” metaphors regarding getting Microsoft to open up any specs. But, alas, it’s once again lonely for Ted being the singular non-professional entity at Novell.

Overview

Erin and Ted tell about what they will present at Socal Linux Expo in February: how to set up virtualized systems on a Linux host using Xen.

Time: 3:08

Size: 2.2 MB

Notes for this Episode:

Southern California Linux Expo website

Our policy at Novell Open Audio World Headquarters is generally “No commercials, dangit!” But when it comes to promoting a known-cool community Linux event we’re happy to oblige.

Overview

The intrepid Randy Goddard explains how you can migrate a physical SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 system to a Xen-hosted virtual system.

Time: 7:14

Size: 6.63 MB

Notes for this Episode:

Xen: Install SLES 9 SP3 domU on SLES 10 XEN dom0

Overview

Dale Olds & Pat Felsted, two of the identity gurus involved in the Higgins and Bandit projects, update us on the progress of multi-vendor efforts to create a completely open source foundation for identity. Beyond the vision and hype of such efforts, they claim to have a working, free software implementation of CardSpace, the new system that Windows Vista uses for authentication and user identity.

We’ll be back with more full episodes of Novell Open Audio in February. Update your podcatcher to use the new feed now in order to get our “winterim bonus episodes.”

Time: 21:03

Size: 34.2 MB

Notes for this Episode:

Microsoft: CardSpace (formerly “InfoCard”)

Wikipedia: CardSpace (formerly “InfoCard”)

InfoCard “Woof and Wag” Reference Application

Overview

Randy Goddard tells us about some quick command line utilities for backing up a disk’s master boot record and partition information, as well as how to document vital system info quickly and easily.

We’ll be back with more full episodes of Novell Open Audio in February. Update your podcatcher to use the new feed now in order to get our “winterim bonus episodes.”

Time: 10:34

Size: 9.7 MB

Notes for this Episode:

Command for backing up your MBR:

dd if=/dev/sda of=~/$servernamembr bs=1 count=512

Command for documenting your partition tables:

fdisk -l /dev/sda> ~/$servernamefdisk

(Remember that the “sda” in these two commands is used as a placeholder for whichever disk you are backing up. Other possible ordinal names for your various disks include: sdb, hda, hdb, hdc, etc.)

config.sh is descibed in a Cool Solutions article

Overview

Phil Karren and Gregory Webb fill us in on more details on what the team plans for the next release of GroupWise. Then Ted and Erin sign off for the 2006 season of Novell Open Audio.

We’ll be back with more full episodes of Novell Open Audio in February. Update your podcatcher to use the new feed now in order to get our “winterim bonus episodes.”

Time: 52:36

Size: 36 MB

Segment Times

GroupWise: 4:13-41:03

Listener Feedback: 41:25-50:36

Links for this Episode:

GroupWise product page

More on Bonsai: Director of GroupWise Engineering Ken Muir’s Blog

More on Bonsai: Product Manager Bill Pray’s Blog

Funny Little Men Behind the Curtain:

Okay, we really suck at getting shirts out lately. This is entirely Ted’s fault. As your dedicated writer of the “funny little men” section of this podcast, I advise you to send flaming hot emails to Ted. He deserves it.

Overview

In this edition, we get an update from openSUSE developer and community advocate Martin Lasarsch about what’s new in openSUSE 10.2.

Time: 31:40

Size: 21.7 MB

Segment Times

openSUSE: 3:08-29:47

Links for this Episode:

openSUSE Wiki

Download openSUSE 10.2

Funny Little Men Behind the Curtain:

With the news that ATI may soon release Xorg 7.2-compliant drivers for FireGL cards, Ted is now watching the ATI Linux driver RSS feed like a hawk. Nothing yet…

Overview

Once again we bring Jason Williams back into the studio, this time to menace him with questions from our listener community. We delve into the differences between SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Open Enterprise Server (OES). We also consider the advantages of using the SLES-based version of OES compared to the NetWare-based version. And of course, Dave and Randy are back with “News from Support.”

Time: 57:48

Size: 39.7 MB

Segment Times

Open Enterprise Server: 2:20-33:35

News from Support: 34:26-56:30

Links for this Episode:

Novell Open Enterprise Server site

Novell Open Workgroup Suite site

Novell Open Enterprise Server Training and Support Promotion

Bridge Your Skills from NetWare to Linux (Free Online Training)

Novell Forge NSS project

News from Support links below

News from Support Links

These are the links for the 11/30 episode (recorded 11/29):

3222109: Potential Security Vulnerability with Apache 2.15 and Earlier

3687342: Old ethX Numbering Not Used When Swapping Network Cards

3422798: PXE services on Linux cause laptops to hang before Windows login appears

Dave’s Cool Solution on NetFilter/iptables

Dave’s Cool Solution on Xming (reader comment at bottom)

Cygwin site

Funny Little Men Behind the Curtain:

Kudos go to South Africa’s Laura Buckley for throwing down the gauntlet that prompted this follow-on interview with Jason. Also, kudos to Jason, who has given over quite a bit of his time to the Novell Open Audio listener community this month.

Based on listener feedback, we’re adapting our News from Support segment to supply more cool Linux tips and how-to’s. Please post a comment to let us know what you think.

We totally forgot to address the perfectly cromulent listener trivia from our last News from Support segment…and there was a winner, too! We’ll announce in our next edition of News from Support.

Will the suggester of Cygwin provide an audio rebuttal to David’s refutation of Cygwin? Could such a rebuttal actually shut Dave up? The suspense is killing us…

To what movie did Ted refer to this time? Do you think there’s a NOA shirt attached to that question? Does it require an audio reply to win? So many questions…

Overview

Product manager Jason Williams comes to the Novell Open Audio studio and talks Caitlin and Ted’s ears off about the next version of Open Enterprise Server. In fact, he talks so much that we can barely fit the intro and outro.

Time: 48:22

Size: 33.3 MB

Segment Times

OES start: 2:12-27:44

Shadow Volumes overview: 27:44-42:50

Links for this Episode:

Open Enterprise Server home page

Images

Here’s a visual of some of the concepts for shadow volumes (click to open in a new window):

Funny Little (wo)Men Behind the Curtain:

Caitlin really wanted to re-do that interview because she felt like she didn’t help get enough clarity around shadow volumes. After reviewing, Ted thought it worked out great. (This is why people hate Ted.)

Notice how Erin is there for the intro, but not the interview. Thanks to the miracle of podcasting, now people can be astrally projected right into the space between our two earphones. Amazing.