How to build a minimal Ubuntu live CD from scratch. The technique can be used to build embedded linux systems based on Ubuntu
Read more »Learn how to Create Your Digital Signature
Will learn how to define security policy to digitally sign and verify SOAP messages with example. In the web services scenario, XML messages are exchanged between the client application and the web services. Certain messages contain critical business information and, therefore, the integrity of the message should be ensured. Ensuring
Read more »Wine development release 1.1.19 is now available
What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Support for Visual C++ project files in winemaker.
- Improvements to the Esound driver.
- Many Direct3D code cleanups.
- Fixes to OLE clipboard handling.
- OpenBSD compilation fixed.
- Various bug fixes.
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Introducing the WebSphere sMash PHPCompute node in WebSphere Message Broker
The PHPCompute node is a new general-purpose programmable node in IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker that embeds the IBM WebSphere sMash runtime for PHP. This article shows how you can use the PHPCompute node to write PHP scripts that transform and route messages in WebSphere Message Broker.
Read more »Handle Compressed and Uncompressed Files Uniformly
When looking at log files or other files that are compressed and rotated automatically, it's useful to be able to deal with them in a uniform fashion. The following bash function does that...
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iRedMail: Build A Full-Featured Mail Server With LDAP, Postfix, RoundCube, [and more] On CentO
iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes on CentOS 5.x (it supports both i386 and x86_64). Its object is to make a Linux mail server installation and configuration simple and easy to use.
Read more »Xen: How to Convert An Image-Based Guest To An LVM-Based Guest
This short article explains how you can move/convert a Xen guest that uses disk images to LVM volumes. Virtual machines that use disk images are very slow and heavy on disk IO, therefore it is often better to use LVM.
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LatencyTOP - Measuring and Fixing Linux latency
LatencyTOP is a Linux* tool for software developers (both kernel and userspace), aimed at identifying where in the system latency is happening, and what kind of operation/action is causing the latency to happen so that the code can be changed to avoid the worst latency hiccups.
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Profile and visualize Linux boot process with Bootchart
Bootchart is an extremely simple, extremely handsome application that allows you to profile your Linux boot process, to measure the loading times of different services, to compare kernels and distributions, to identify bottlenecks and improve the performance of your system, and then to display the results in a professional-looking chart.
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Do operating systems still matter?
Do operating systems (still) matter? If you’re writing an application at the level of Java or PHP, what difference does it make what operating system is running underneath?
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Dconf in GNOME 3.0 : one step further to Windows registry ?
Today, while reading LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9 concerning GNOME 3.0, I noticed the part about dconf. Dconf aims to replace ... gconf already. Yeah, we can't keep a simple technology as simple as reading and writing application configurations settings more than 8 years ...
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Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software?
Six-month cycles are great. Now let's talk about meta-cycles: broader release cycles for major work. I'm very interested in a cross-community conversation about this, so will sketch out some ideas and then encourage people from as many different free software communities as possible to comment here.
Read more »Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30
The next major Linux version will include new Wi-Fi drivers for chips from Atheros, Intel, Intersil/Prism and Marvell and new drivers for Intel LAN chips. The kernel will also in future make better use of energy saving features.
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Crash Testing ext4 on Ubuntu 9.04
One of the more controversial aspects of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release is the use of the ext4 filesystem. Users have apparently lost important data already while testing Ubuntu on their desktop. This article provides some basic information about ext4 and then provides some test results on a Ubuntu 9.04 server.
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Xen vs. KVM: The Linux Foundation’s Small-Minded View of Virtualization
But the crux of the issue is really around why The Foundation chose KVM in the first place. It’s simple: KVM = Linux; Xen = Xen (that is, a purpose-built hypervisor derived from Linux). Second, KVM is not a true hypervisor.
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