Category: OpenSUSE
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PHP 5.5 to ship a byte cache soon? Zend Optimizer+ going opensource and into main PHP project
In a recent discussion among php core developers, Zeev Suraski of Zend Technologies offered to open source their proprietary byte cache “Zend Optimizer+”. The main objective is to get a bytecode cache into the PHP distribution and finally into the core. There is a lot of discussion if the 5.5 release should be delayed by…
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Heads Up: PHP deprecates mysql extension in 5.5.
In a recent developer vote, the php project decided to deprecate the mysql extension in PHP 5.5 and finally remove it from the main PHP project. It may or may not be available for a longer period as a PECL extension. The mysql extension has long been superseded by two more powerful extensions, PDO/Mysql and…
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jappix needs php-mbstring and will fail on SLES11
jappix is a fine piece of xmpp (jabber) based community building software. Sadly, its installer needs php-mbstring (for SLES 11 SP2, this is php5-mbstring or php53-mbstring depending on your php choice). Sadly, it hides any error messages before requiring this crucial library. You will never know until you investigate closely. Or as some person on…
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Horde 5 Preview: Sesha Inventory App 1.0 and updated Rdo library
Dear folks, I am very pleased to announce: The Sesha Inventory application is ready for Horde 5 and it is in good shape. Sesha is a simple inventory keeping application which originally developed by Bo Daley and Andrew Coleman on Horde 3. The product was never officially released but it went into production at several…
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Heads up: OBS SLES 11 PHP stuff migrates to SP2! – server:php:applications/SLE11 repository
OBS server:php:applications/SLE11 repository now builds against SLES 11 SP2 – some packages fail to build because of multiple providers.
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php5.3 packages in SLES 11 SP2
SLES 11 SP2 ships php5.3 binaries but the default package php5 still installs php5.2 which already has reached upstream end of life and should be considered unsupported by any means. Recent versions of phpunit and other developer tools won’t provide all features on php5.2 any more. You must use apache2-mod_php53, php53, php53-mysql and so on…
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Installing Horde 4 pear packages to a custom pear location (SUSE)
When installing horde to a custom pear location, you need to run the pear of your custom location, not the system pear with the custom location’s config. So the steps would be: 1 mkdir /srv/horde 2 pear config-create /srv/horde/ /srv/horde/pear.conf 3 pear -c /srv/horde/pear.conf install PEAR as the install docs say but then: 4 /srv/horde/pear/pear…
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Horde 5 is coming / Horde 3 support ends
Horde 5 planned for April 2012 / Horde 3 Support ends / OpenSUSE 12.2 will get Horde 5 if schedule permits / Horde 3 dropped from factory / Eleusis dropped
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Using socat or netcat to debug unix sockets like telnet for tcp
Sometimes you want to debug a service with a clear text protocol, but it uses unix sockets instead of INET sockets. Surprisingly, there is little info on this around the net. An easy solution would be socat: socat UNIX-CONNECT:/var/run/blabla/nameofthe.sock STDIN EDIT: Linux consultant Stefan Seyfried pointed out, that from openSUSE 12.1 onwards you can also…
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Luedecke petitions Hewlett-Packard: Release the HP WebOS code now!
OpenSUSE Ambassador Roger Luedecke has just started a petition towards the Hewlett-Packackard Company (HP) to release the WebOS source code under the GPL license. Luedecke says, “I care deeply about this very important issue”. WebOS is a mobile operating system based on Linux and was originally developed by handheld computer producer Palm, who are now…