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What they don’t mention in this is that the move was from Novell to Windows last time around, and now from Windows to Linux.
Wow. Crossover is an awesome product, allowing you to run MSOffice and other such business apps on your Linux desktop. The CodeWeavers folks do excellent work, and they contribute most of their code back to the open source Wine project. Now they’ve added preliminary iTunes support, including the ability to buy and play iTMS protected tracks. Cool!
“The folks over at CNet have the scoop that a new version of CrossOver Office (3.1) now supports Apple’s iTunes. The preview version of the software is being tested and is currently only available to current CodeWeavers customers. They expect a final version to be available later this year.” Reader snowtigger contributes a link to this screenshot. White demonstrated iTunes on a Linux machine at OSCON as well; a rendering glitch marred that demo, but he was still able to demonstrate playing back a song which he’d purchased from iTMS using iTunes on Linux. [Slashdot]
What a fun week. I’ve been working to build a new mail system at InfoWorld to allow our Treo 600 users to have a good standards-compliant mail backend. Needless to say, being stuck with Notes mail servers doesn’t work out very well when trying to use cutting edge technology. I’ve been running my own personal mail system this way for years now, but decided this was a good chance to try out some newer technologies.
My personal setup consists of Sendmail, SpamAssassin, Procmail, and UW-IMAP. This works great for a small number of users, but for a more robust system I evaluated a number of different options that wouldn’t require local system accounts for each user, and that would let us do LDAP authentication. I finally decided on using Postfix, Amavis, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, and Cyrus IMAP. Things are working pretty well, but I’m still in tweak mode. More to come….
About noon today Pacific time I noticed that I could no longer access my personal mail server for my domain. That server, a Debian Woody machine, also happens to run SpamAssassin, MySQL, and Apache for some test pages I am playing with. I also recently tweaked my SA rules to be much more aggressive which added quite a bit to the RAM used per spamd process.
I was silly enough to put this blog up on that same server on top of all of this. Needless to say, that was a bit much for an elderly rackmount server with only a 300Mhz CPU and 192MB RAM. It was still running, but was totally out of RAM and swap space, and was very unresponsive til I killed off Apache and SpamAssassin and cleaned things up a bit.
Now that I reduced the max number of httpd and spamd processes that it’ll launch, and cut back on some of the larger SA rulesets I had added, things appear to be working well again. Time to move MT on to a bit faster box, methinks.