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This week at LWN: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
At the Linux Plumbers Conference Thursday, Arjan van de Ven, Linux developer at Intel and author of PowerTOP, and Auke Kok, another Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, demonstrated a Linux system booting in five seconds. The hardware was an Asus EEE PC, which has solid-state storage, and the two developers beat the five second mark with two software loads: one modified Fedora and one modified Moblin. They had to hold up the EEE PC for the audience, since the time required to finish booting was less than the time needed for the projector to sync.
Clean up your filesystems with fslint
Maintaining filesystems can be a real administration burden. Over time you might start getting multiple copies of the same file, soft links that point to files that no longer exist, temporary files that have been hanging around longer than they should, and binaries that have been installed and not had their debugging information stripped out. fslint can help you find these troublesome files so you can clean up your filesystem. Packages for fslint are available in Ubuntu Hardy universe and in the Fedora 9 repositories. There are currently no packages for openSUSE. I built it from source using version 2.28 of fslint on a 32-bit Fedora 9 machine. fslint is written in Python and uses GTK+2 and libglade2, so you'll need these and the Python bindings for them installed first.
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
Red Hat on Thursday introduced what it called the first fully integrated, Linux-based, high-performance-computing platform, claiming to undercut a similar Windows-based system recently introduced by Microsoft. The Red Hat HPC Solution is an update of a product of the same name that was introduced in November 2007. That product had more limited options for hardware and support, and was not available outside the United States. The new version is the first to be available directly through the Red Hat Network and to be backed by Red Hat's own international customer-support services.
Shell Script To Access The International Thesaurus!
Impress your friends with fancy alternative foreign words for the banal English ones you use everyday ;) Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is follow-up in our (must-almost-be-ending) series of posts on Linux and Unix Bash shell scripts to keep you from having to switch to your browser ;) The last one we did was an Updated World Weather Checker. To keep up with this list of scripts that keeps on growing, check out our other bash script posts on spewing out famous quotations on pretty much any subject, doing encyclopedia lookups, accessing the online Thesaurus, translating between different languages and, of course, using the online dictionary.
Phoronix Test Suite Brings Benchmarking To Mac OS X
In the Phoronix Test Suite 1.2 "Malvik" release our flagship Linux benchmarking software was brought to OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. With Phoronix Test Suite 1.4 "Orkdal", to be officially released later this year, we are now extending our test support to include Apple's Mac OS X operating system. In Phoronix Test Suite 1.4 Alpha 2 that was released this morning there is full support for Mac OS X within this open-source benchmarking framework and there are about three dozen tests that will run "out of the box" in this environment. We believe this is now the most comprehensive benchmarking platform for Mac OS X and it allows real-world test results to be compared from Linux, OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD.
Mono delivers Foundation-free open .NET alternative
The open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET is due to hit its second release today, with many .NET 3.5 features and a few notable exceptions. Mono 2.0 will be announced today a year and a half later than expected but - thanks to that delay - it features an open-source version of C# 3.0 and Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Mono lets you build and run .NET-style desktop and server applications on Linux, OS X and Solaris in addition to Windows.
Microsoft to build new search base in Norway
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer was in Oslo and visited Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was quick to hail Microsoft's move. Stoltenberg claimed that Microsoft's selection of Norway signaled major recognition of Norway's search technology expertise. He called it "a fantastic thing," and said Microsoft's commitment to Norway would also stimulate and strengthen local competence.
HowTo Remaster a LiveCD or LiveDVD using SLAX
The other day I had to come up with a way to transfer a Solaris Express nv97 DVD 3G image to remote locations while not using the network. The reason for this is, I needed to perform a LiveUpgrade on over 700 boxes and each being at a different locations. So I said to myself I guess I can put this image on a custom LiveDVD... But then I said to myself, which Linux LiveCD/DVD distro will I use???? It has to be small enough so that I can fit the Solaris Express nv97 image as well as the LiveCD Image.
LXer Weekly Roundup for 05-Oct-2008
LXer Feature: 05-Oct-2008Here are the most prominent stories that hit the LXer Newswire this past week all gathered together for your reading pleasure. Gentoo looks to restructure, a look at who really is contributing to Linux development, is gOS better that Ubuntu? And last but not least we celebrate the birthday of the Linux Kernel as it turns 17.
Top 5 Torrent Clients for Linux
A list with the most used torrent clients for Linux. While a few other exists and are listed elsewhere, I think the software presented here represents the big players, and a wide range of interfaces and features. I’m just sharing, I don’t profess to be an expert. Anyway, I hope this list will be of help to you in choosing a better torrent client.
Klikit-Linux ScreenShots
I just found this Linux Distribution today and I figured why not and support Klikit by posting there Screenshots here. I hope you guys enjoy. Klikit-Linux is based on the latest stable release of Kubuntu. Klikit-Linux comes with a collection of applications that will meet most of your daily computer needs, such as office, graphic, multimedia, and internet work.
Norway ISO members walk out over OOXML
Norwegian members of the Technical Committee of that country's International Standards Organisation (ISO) body Standard Norge have resigned their posts to protest the approval of Microsoft's OOXML document formats proposal in defiance of the majority recommendation. In all, 13 of the committee's 23 members have resigned, a majority of the membership. In Standard Norge deliberations regarding OOXML earlier this year, only two members – Microsoft and Statoil – voted for approval, while the remaining 21 voted against it. Defying the overwhelming vote, the officials of Standard Norge went ahead and approved OOXML anyway, and transmitted that "decision" to ISO.
PV-Grub on CentOS 5.2 PV DomU at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 (all 64-bit)
Port Xen 3.3 to CentOS 5.2 has been done via http://www.gitco.de/repo/xen3.3.0 . Install CentOS 5.2 PV DomU via virt-install utilizing NFS share with mounted loop DVD ISO image. Create profile PV DomU as follows not using vfb at this time and setup “vnc” at DomU afterwords.
Rebuilding a Laptop Battery
When your laptop battery is about to give up the ghost, you are probably thinking of the typical three alternatives. The most obvious, of course, is "wow, what a great justification for buying a new laptop". With laptop prices falling and no such luck with battery prices, this almost makes sense. But, most of us will probably just bite the bullet and buy a new battery. The third alternative would be to replace the cells in the battery you already have. This article is about the third alternative. If you are not fairly skilled in working on electronics, this is not necessarily a good alternative. But, it is possible. Personally, I was inspired to do this the first time because the small (3-cell) battery for my ASUS laptop was very ill and I couldn't find a replacement.