Despite Red Hat’s surprising announcement last week that it would be partnering with Microsoft on virtualization, on February 23rd, Red Hat’s announced that it would be switching its virtualization strategy from a mix of virtualization programs, including the Microsoft-friendly Xen, to focusing on Linux’s baked-in KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
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Creating JeOS virtual machines in Ubuntu
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The two tools I use for creating new vm’s with libvirt are virt-install and vmbuilder. I use virt-install when I will be installing an OS from installable media or using an existing disk image, and vmbuilder when I need to create JeOS based vm’s.
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Black Hat : Is Tor really anonymous?
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Security researcher Xinwen Fu took the stage at Black Hat today and claimed that he could break Tor anonymity with a single cell.
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Coyote Linux Design Philosophies
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Many of you are going to question some of the decisions made when I selected the tools, platforms, and techniques for the development of Coyote Linux 4. I am going to write up a post as a preemptive set of answers which I will refer to when the questions, comments, flames, etc start pouring in.
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Cisco (Quietly) Adds to Linux Kernel
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Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.
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Sneak preview of Suse Linux Enterprise 11
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Novell is offering a sneak preview of the forthcoming Suse Linux Enterprise 11 server (SLES) and desktop (SLED) versions to download. SLE 11 contains current software, including kernel version 2.6.27, X.org 7.4, Gnome 2.24 and KDE 4.1, Apache 2.2.10 and Samba 3.2.5, PHP 5.2.6, and Python 2.6.
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Linpus Linux To Launch QuickOS Next Week
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DeviceVM's SplashTop Linux environment really was revolutionary in pushing the "instant-on Linux" theme as it was able to boot to its desktop in just a few seconds. Next week there will be a new competitor joining the "instant-on Linux" scene.
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Concurrent boot sequence
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In the quest for the fastest boot ever, you may want to consider setting the variable CONCURRENCY=shell in /etc/default/rcS, recalling from your your theoretical studies that "Parallel is faster than Sequential."
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Tour the Linux generic SCSI driver
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Linux provides a generic driver for SCSI devices and an application programming interface so users can build applications to send SCSI commands directly to SCSI devices. In this article, the author introduces some of the SCSI commands and methods of executing SCSI commands when using SCSI API in Linux. He also provides background on the SCSI client/server model and the storage SCSI command.
Read more »Fast ext4 fsck times, revisited
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Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov algorithm to spread out top-level directories for better filesystem aging.
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VMware moves vCenter to Linux
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VMware will release future versions of vCenter, its flagship virtualisation-management software, in Linux versions as well as for Windows.
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Linux Chrome with Gtk+: Cross-Platform Complication
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If Google were to use Qt, things would be much simpler and Chrome would have a unified interface under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. But Google isn't satisfied with Qt.
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Subtle Improvements In Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5
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Due out tomorrow is the fifth alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope). Ubuntu 9.04 is now in a feature freeze so there isn't much to expect in Jaunty Alpha 5, but there are a few items worth highlighting.
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Binary-only device drivers for Linux and the supportability matrix of doom
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I came across the following from the ext3-users mailing list. The poor user was stuck on a never-updated RHEL 3 production server and running into kernel panic problems. He was advised to try updating to the latest kernel rpm from Red Hat, but he didn’t feel he could do that.
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When Seeing Is Believing: Translatin multicore power into application performance
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So you aren't ready to buy into this multicore and parallelization stuff until you're able to see its benefits with your own eyes? If that's the case, then take a couple of minutes to watch this pair of YouTube videos...
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