This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).
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rasdaman array DBMS released under free license
http://dbworld.dnsalias.net –
"We are happy to announce availability of the free version of the rasdaman (”raster data manager”) array DBMS, jointly developed by Jacobs University Bremen and rasdaman GmbH, for download at www.rasdaman.org [...] Rasdaman is in operational use in geo service applications run by both industry and governmental authorities since many years..."
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Detecting memory leaks & invalid memory de-allocation in the Linux kernel
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Memory leaks and memory corruptions are problems that can be easily introduced in code written in C or C++ and generally in any programming language that does not have a garbage collector built in, causing system crashes and sometimes, even worse, unexpected behavior, creating bugs that are difficult to be detected.
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GtkLauncher 0.2.0
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"I'm proud to announce a new version of GtkLauncher, an IDE for GNU Smalltalk..."
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ZFS, Btrfs and Oracle
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Most of you may already be aware of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. It just dawned on me earlier yesterday: What will be the future of ZFS and Btrfs, seeing how Chris Mason, the lead developer to Btrfs works for Oracle?
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Sun Developer on the Security of OpenOffice
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In a recent blog, Sun developer Malte Timmermann took a position on the security concerns of the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique, Electronique, Automatique (ESIEA) in Paris-Laval, France. The subject was the vulnerability of OpenOffice, involving document macros, for example.
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Getting Started With ModSecurity
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Using ModSecurity is not easy. The complexity of your site, your use of PHP, MySQL and other scripting languages will make it more difficult to configure correctly. Basically, the more complex your site, the more time you will need to work out issues with rules. This tutorial will provide you with several important tips to get started with ModSecurity.
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Why Linux Does Not Need A Unified Package Manager
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To me this is a very simple question to answer. Linux does not need a unified package manager when the source to the application you are using is available for you to compile on your own. Make your own package.
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Hungry for merges? The Ubuntu Server Team has a selection for your appetite
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Now that the karmic release cycle has opened Ubuntu developers are focusing on merging packages from Debian unstable into karmic repositories. If you’re looking for improving your packaging skills here is a list of merges that look easy...
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A Quick Tour of GNOME Shell
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I did decide to do a quick tour of the GNOME Shell, one of the integral parts of the GNOME 3 series, scheduled to be coming out in 2010 or so.
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Running Ubuntu 9.04 With Older Hardware
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At Phoronix we have tested out Ubuntu 9.04 quite extensively with a variety of different hardware and have delivered numerous benchmarks, but we had not looked closely at running the Jaunty Jackalope with older hardware. In this article though we have done just that and carried out a number of Ubuntu 9.04 tests using an older VIA-based PC.
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Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - Storage improvements
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The next kernel version is to provide all that's necessary to convert, for example, a RAID 5 into a RAID 6 and vice versa. There are changes to the block layer designed to speed up the system, and new and improved drivers will offer better SAS support.
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ECB 2.40 released! (2009-05-16)
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"ECB now requires full CEDET being installed (at least 1.0pre6). ECB has now more user-responsible buffer-parsing based on the idle-mechanism of semantic. In addition it fully supports current semantic-analyzer for intellisense and type-finding. ECB is more stable and now fully compatible with Emacs 22 and 23..."
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BackTrack 4 - Hacking galore
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We have already had three articles on Linux forensics. This is the fourth. Today, we will review another high-end, security-oriented distribution, BackTrack.
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Stop the presses: Poulsbo on Fedora 10 - working
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yes! I have psb up on Fedora 10. I just had it driving the P’s internal panel at 1600×768 and my 20″ monitor at 1680×1050 - side-by-side. which is actually pretty impressive. It has a decent RandR implementation.
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