Today was a sad day. I found out my streaming mirror/microblog server had been cracked. They exploited webmin and set up shop. Alas, there is no one to blame but myself. This is how I believe it went down.

One might think that the ext3 filesystem, by virtue of being standard on almost all installed Linux systems for some years now, would be reasonably well tuned for performance. Recent events have shown, though, that some performance problems remain in ext3, especially in places where the fsync() system call is used.

GCC 4.4 is a critically important component of the open source software landscape. It officially was released last week and I blogged on it briefly, but felt the need to get more insight. Fedora 11 which hit its preview release yesterday lists GCC 4.4 as one of its key features and Red Hat is a key contributor to GCC, so I asked Red Hat for their views on how GCC 4.4 will make a difference.

The US Defense Department is enlisting an open source approach to software development -- an about-face for such a historically top-down organisation.

In most cases, the embedded systems are tailor-made for specific application environment. Only the necessary software components are installed due to limited budget on storage and computing capabilities. Usually a full Linux is not necessary for either consumers or developers.

We have already discussed how to install ubuntu 9.04 LAMP server .If you are a new user and not familiar with command prompt you can install GUI for your ubuntu LAMP server using the 2 options

The developers behind the open source Moonlight project have announced the availability of a Moonlight 2.0 preview release. This version brings preliminary support for Silverlight to the Linux platform.

Tonny Kohar has reviewed Swing Extreme Testing book by Packt. He says, " If you ever wondered on how to test Java GUI, then Swing Extreme Testing by Tim Lavers and Lindsay Peters from Packt Publishing might interest you."
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