C’è stato poco tempo fa il Mobile World Congress di Barcellona. Vista la vicinanza con il rilascio di iPad, e l’aggressività di Apple (che sositene essere un forte competitor Mobile), vale la pena fare qualche rilfessione.

Tra le tante presentazioni fatte, mertiano una citazione Windows Mobile 7 e MeeGo.

Con Windows Mobile Microsoft punta fare concorrenza diretta ad Apple, ma dovremo aspettare il Natale 2010 per vedere cosa succederà. Di certo il nuovo sistema operativo di Redmond è più esigente in fatto di risorse e quindi speriamo le usi bene….

Per quanto riguarda MeeGo, ecco come viene presentato dalla Linux Foundation:

SAN FRANCISCO, February 15, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it will host the MeeGo project, the open source software platform for the next generation of computing devices. MeeGo combines Intel’s Moblin™ and Nokia’s Maemo projects into one Linux-based platform.
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MeeGo è un prodotto patrocinato dalla Linux Fondation, e portato attivamente avanti da Nokia ed Intel.  Si tratta di una risposta nella competizione mobile, che Nokia vede insidiata da Microsoft e Apple.

Non ci è chiaro il destino del Symbian, il sistema operativo ufficiale di Nokia che quindi a questo punto darei per morto e sepolto; leggete idee e opinioni sul MeeGo, piuttosto.

Setting up a bunch of Linux machines is easier now, thank to company like http://turnkeylinux.org/

At Gioorgi.com we have the need to setup a tiny box with PHP Mysql and a bunch of unix utilities, to automate common tasks.

We took one of the TurnKey iso, and then we customized it via the apt-* utilities. Let’s see the steps

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After working with unix for years, we noticed it is difficult to get a very uniform approach to unix management.

Often different Linux distributions share very little, configuration is different every time. Worst, some good unix tools (like cron, syslog, etc) can be used in a distributed environment, but are very difficult to configure, very user unfriendly and so on.

OpenPKG is a very clever stuff, because enable you to  install multiple copies of the same software with minimal effort.

CFEngine is  “an automated suite of programs for configuring and maintaining Unix-like computers.”

One of the strong ideas, is the cfengine ability to “self-repair” configuration, which brings with it the idea of “live” system.

On the FAQ we also read:

Cfengine does not inflict a model on you like most other tools for configuration. But it does inflict a security principle on you. Computers running cfengine never have to give up their autonomy to be part of a configuration collective. Pushing information to cfengine is strictly disallowed. Most users agree that this has kept cfengine users secure over the years.

Looking at “Automating UNIX and Linux Administration” you can find a deep description of these tools.

An older tool is kanif.