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Sysadmin Related Links

Here are a few sysadmin related links:

  1. There is a new Ruby and sysadmin related book available, Practical Ruby for System Administration. The last few years Ruby has really sailed up as a good alternative to Perl and Python. Personally I must say I prefer Python over Perl but with all the hype around Ruby I started to glimpse at it.
  2. The next FreeBSD release, 7, will contain a couple of OpenSolaris technologies. ZFS and support for sun4v (the T1 CPU) will be available. DTrace won’t make due to some licensing issue. So if you for some reason do not want to run OpenSolaris then FreeBSD may be the right thing for you. OSX will also have DTrace in the next release but they call it Xray and it looks very cool.
  3. Sudo came out with a new version two days ago, 1.6.9. This is the first release in almost two years. I haven’t spent much time with Solaris RBAC and therefore prefer sudo but I’m planning to investigate RBAC a bit more and you will read more about my adventures here.
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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 5:39 pm and is filed under Books, FreeBSD, Links, OpenSolaris, RBAC, Ruby, Sudo. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Sysadmin Related Links”

  1. Great links. thanks.

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