In the last HowTo, I showed you how to setup GFS2 file system with Red Hat Clustering. I will now show you how to optimize the performance of your GFS2 mounts. The gfs_controld daemon manages the mounting, unmounting, and the recovery of the GFS2 mounts. gfs_controld also manages the posix lock. By default the plock_rate_limit option is set to 100.
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ubuntu and Web Publishing
Experince your web developing tools in ubuntu... drupal, joomla, scribus, phlone
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How to open files as root user via right click
Follow these steps to open files as root user via right click
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More on the Mono mischief
Mono Team Puts MS’s GPL-incompatible Licence & Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux
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Gnome 2.28.0 beta1
The Gnome team has released a Beta version of the Gnome Desktop Environment, version 2.28.0 beta1.
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Enhanced Command-Not-Found Hook in Ubuntu 9.10
One of the less prominent Ubuntu features that has received an overhaul for Karmic is the command-not-found handle, which helps users find the program they're looking for when they type an unrecognized command in the terminal. Following is a brief outline of improvements made to this tiny utility, and why they matter.
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.3 (LAMP)
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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ATI Catalyst 9.8 Released, How To Upgrade Your ATI Drivers in Linux
With ATI Catalyst 9.8, ATI finally has support for newer kernels. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel. However, at the same time, they have also released support for the Linux 2.6.30 kernel, which arrived back in June.
Read more »Open source, proprietary or a little of both?
The Register's latest video webcast, an expert look at open source and traditional proprietary software models, is now available on-demand from the Reg archives. This broadcast explores the relative merits of open source and traditional proprietary software, and discusses how they can best be made to co-exist happily.
Read more »Happy sweet 16 Debian - where now?
The Debian Linux distribution celebrates its 16th anniversary this week (official birthday is: August 16, 1993). It sure has been an interesting ride.
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VDrift, TORCS, SuperTuxKart: 3 Free, Open Source, Cross-Platform Car Racing Games
VDrift, TORCS and SuperTuxKart are 3 free, open source car racing games which run on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Read on for more info...
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Not too soon: Moonlight 2 finally reaches beta
The team of Miguel De Icaza has released the first feature complete beta release of Moonlight 2.0.
I must say: it is about time! Silverlight 3.0 for Windows has been released last month. Although I really admire the work of Miguel and his team, Linux is still the poor child when it comes to Silverlight support.
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PCLinuxOS LXDE (PCLXDE) 2009 Review
Fortunately, the PCLOS community has come out with a new flavor based on the LXDE desktop, so I can stop worrying about a forced KDE 4 upgrade. I opted for the LXDE install. I’d never tried it, much less heard of it, but the screenshots looked nice enough.
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Avidemux Version 2.5.1 Was Released - Fixes A Lot of Bugs
Version 2.5.1 of Avidemux was released, a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. I've been having some problems with version 2.5.0 and as you can see from these comments, I wasn't the only one experiencing this.
Read on to see what's new and Ubuntu & Windows downloads.
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The greatest open source software of all time
InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame recognizes the 36 most useful and important free open source software projects in history (and today)
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