Developers' Blogs: DNAku

As most of you will know if you read my previous post, I went to FOSDEM this weekend.
One of the things I did there was attend an AppArmor presentation.

"AppArmor is an application security tool designed to provide a highly secure yet easy to use security framework for your applications. AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats, even zero-day attacks, by enforcing good behavior and preventing even unknown application flaws from being exploited. AppArmor security policies, called "profiles", completely define what system resources individual applications can access, and with what privileges."

At the moment it's only available in Suse, but the developer that gave the presentation wants to see it ported to other distros. So after the presentation I talked to him about this. It's mostly a matter of init scripts and their locations.

So today I made a darcs repo for apparmor so that crazy and me can port it to Frugalware.

I just noticed that the ODW program also opened again.
Like with the other programs I immediately added a proposal about Frugalware to it.

ODW-proposal

I worked a bit on the ppc port today, but I've mostly been configuring my iBook.
Next week will be the last week that I'll have to work really hard on my thesis, so after that I have a week vacation, which means I'll have time again.

By the way, I'll be going to FOSDEM next weekend.
If there are any frugalware users who are going to be there, let me know something.
In case you see this person during FOSDEM, just tell him how much you love Frugalware.

Genesi opened the HDB and OSW Developer Programs.
Of course I immediatly registered myself for both program.
Let's hope we're as lucky as with the EFIKA Developer Program.

HDB proposal
OSW proposal

I subscribed myself in the EFIKA Developer Program some days ago.
And yesterday I got an email from genesi:

Your PPCZone Project proposal entitled Frugalware Linux was approved today.

That means that we'll be getting an EFIKA donated from Genesi.

So what's an EFIKA?
The EFIKA is a really small mainboard with (yep, you guessed it right) a PowerPC cpu.

So what are the specs?

• Freescale MPC5200B PowerPC SoC up to 466MHz
• 128MB DDR RAM (configurable from 32MB to 512MB )
• 44-pin IDE connector
• 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet
• 2x USB ports
• 1x RS232 Serial port
• Stereo Audio out, Microphone and Line-input
• PCI/AGP riser slot

So what am I supposed to do with it?

According to my EFIKA Project Page I'll have to make sure that Frugalware works out of the box on it.