Novell has launched SUSE Studio, a service that allows anyone to create their own Linux distro respin using nothing more than their web browser. But did you know Novell already has plans to open source the new technology it contains?
Read more »SYSSTAT Howto: A Deployment and Configuration Guide for Linux Servers
SYSSTAT is a software application comprised of several tools that offers advanced system performance monitoring. It provides the ability to create a measurable baseline of server performance, as well as the capability to formulate, accurately assess and conclude what led up to an issue or unexpected occurrence.
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PC-BSD 7.1.1 Quick Review
I downloaded the latest version of PC-BSD. This is not a Linux distribution. As the title of the OS says in plain view, it’s a BSD based UNIX. In this instance, FreeBSD based.
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Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) driver repository available for Fedora 11
Adam Williamson has made available a repository containing a full set of packages to install the driver for Intel Poulsbo (GMA500) graphics chipsets (found in the Dell Mini 12, Sony Vaio P and other systems) on Fedora 11.
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A Perfect Illustration of Why I Now Choose Scientific Linux Over CentOS
I started becoming concerned during the protracted period that it took to get 5.3 out. Not about the "lateness" in getting 5.3 out, but the complete lack of security updates in the interim for my 5.2 system.
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Personal Supercomputers Promise Teraflops on Your Desk
Stone's team got "personal supercomputers," compact machines with a stack of graphics processors that together pack quite a punch and can be used to run complex simulations.
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Linux Weather Forecast
Current conditions: the 2.6.30 kernel was released on June 9. The 2.6.30 development cycle saw the addition of almost 12,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing some 200 different companies. 2.6.30 has 624,000 more lines of code than 2.6.29.
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Linux Monday: Updating the Old Boxes
How many computers is too many? According to me, I have a 16 port hub and I still have slots left. The flexibility of Linux means you can install a full-featured desktop, or a minimalist system.
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Map your network with Zenmap
For Nmap you can use the user-friend Zenmap. And how can you get up to speed quickly with Zenmap? Easy...you read this tutorial on how to run a scan on your entire LAN and then read the results.
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Samba News And New Team Blog
Starting today, we're going to try and create semi-regular updates on what is going on in the fast moving world of Samba development, what we're all up to, and where the code is going in the future. This will be a technical blog, with details on the internal changes in Samba code. We hope you enjoy it !
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Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2
It’s been a while since we’ve had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner.
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Impressions of C#
Over the last month and a half I’ve been working on an application using C#, .NET, and Windows.Forms in Visual Studio 2008. At first it seemed like they took the worst instead of the best things from Java and C++, but overall I’ve gotten to like the language. Here are some of my thoughts.
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SSDs and filesystems, part 2
So, a couple days in, and I'm still trying to (re)install Gentoo. More on that in a bit. First, let's talk about speed.
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Search Google.com from the Linux command line
You can search Google.com from the Linux command line without using a CLI web browser like lynx or Elinks. All you need is the curl and html2text packages installed. Then you issue the following command...
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Gernlinden, Gaming, OpenCL, & OpenGL 3.2
This week at Phoronix began by learning that Compiz is now running on ATI R600/700 GPUs when using the latest open-source Mesa / DRM stack.
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