Here are a couple of performance tweaks that are nice for desktops/laptops. These four tweaks are relatively easy to perform and reasonable safe. Everything you do is on your own risk though. (I’m self-promoting this blog entry because people showed interested in it judging from my blog stats.)
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- Hands on with Mint 7 July 11, 2009Now in its seventh iteration, codenamed Gloria, Linux Mint aims to bring easy-to-use Linux to the masses. It's based upon the ubiquitious Ubuntu, and as such it shares many of the same features; the installation routine, for example, is virtually identical and takes under 30 minutes to complete.
- Did Microsoft force Asus to axe Linux? July 11, 2009Victor Keegan: Microsoft is right to warn about the danger of a serious monopoly in search because of Google's dominance
- What to expect from the next version of Ubuntu July 10, 2009Due October, Karmic Koala is taking cloud computing seriously. You can generally get an inclination of what Ubuntu is going to feel like from the name, and we think the Karmic Koala is going to be more of an interim release than a major overhaul.
- Nine Must-Have Features We Want to See in a Google Chore OS July 9, 2009What's inside Google's just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that's what we're doing with some help from the hive mind.
- Giz Explains: What the Hell is Google's Chrome OS? July 9, 2009Since the official blog post is all Google has said about Chrome OS and it doesn't say much, let's do something I learned in college, turning tiny paragraphs into pages of "deep reading."
- Google Chromium gains native theming support on Linux July 8, 2009The Linux port of Chromium, the open source development version of Google's Chrome browser, now has a native theming mode that will make the browser adopt the icons and colors from a user's GTK theme.
- Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux July 8, 2009Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth : TechRadar UK
- "Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu" | Education IT | ZDNet.com July 8, 2009Obviously, this isn't true. But to a 17-year-old student who "hated Linux" a year ago, there's no longer any meaningful difference between the two operating systems. The old Windows vs. vs. Mac vs. Linux debate may finally be dead.
- Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS July 8, 2009Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.
- VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support - Ars Technica July 6, 2009Sun released VirtualBox 3 this week, the latest version of its open source x86 virtualization software. The new version introduces support for 3D graphics and SMP.
Slashdot: Linux
- Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Developmentdp619 writes "Mono, a framework based on Microsoft technology, has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java, but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting. The story also touches on the failure of Linux distros to keep pace with Eclipse."Read more of this story at Slashdot.timothy
- Moblin Will Run X Server As Logged-In User, Not RootnerdyH writes "An architect of the Moblin Project has announced that Moblin 2.0 for netbooks and nettops is the first Linux distribution to run the X server as the logged-in user, rather than SUID'd to root. The fix to this decades-old security liability comes thanks to 'NRX' (No-root X) technology reportedly developed by Intel, Red Hat, […]timothy
- Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010Zaiff Urgulbunger writes "After years of speculation, Google has announced Google Chrome OS, which should be available mid-2010. Initially targeting netbooks, its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security — which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas! The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM ar […]timothy
- Nokia's Maemo Switching To Qtsuka writes "During a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Nokia's Quim Gil announced that a future release of Maemo is going to be built around Qt. Maemo Harmattan is going to switch away from GTK+ / Hildon, derStandard.at reports from the conference." Michael Pyne also writes with a post describing day one of the conference from a KDE […]timothy
- Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your BrowserIanopolous writes "Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser! The latest JPC, the fast 100% Java x86 PC emulator, is now available with online demos and downloads. JPC is open source and is the most secure way of running x86 software ever — 2 layers (applet sandbox, JPC sandbox) of independently validated security make it […]timothy
- Linux Patch Clears the Air For Use of Microsoft's FAT FilesystemArs Technica is reporting that a new kernel patch may provide a workaround to allow use of Microsoft's FAT file system on Linux without paying licensing fees. "Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers behind the Samba project, published a patch last week that will alter the behavior of the Linux FAT implementation so that it will not generate bo […]ScuttleMonkey
- Jim Zemlin Pitches Linux App Stores For Telcosangry tapir writes "Mobile carriers may start giving away netbooks for free, and Linux-based application stores could help them profit by doing so, the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin argued at a recent forum in Beijing. 'Selling discounted netbooks to users who buy a mobile data subscription would extend a sales strategy widely used for mobile […]Soulskill
- Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettopssuperbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."Read more of this story at Slashdot.kdawson
- EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance ComparedAn anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has published Linux filesystem benchmarks comparing XFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems. This is the first time that the new EXT4 and Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems have been directly compared when it comes to their disk performance though the results may surprise. For the most part, EXT4 came out on top. […]timothy
- The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migrationchristian.einfeldt writes "The Munich decision to move its 14,000 desktops to Free Open Source Software created a big splash back in 2003 as news circulated of the third-largest German city's defection from Microsoft. When it was announced in 2003, the story garnered coverage even in the US, such as an extensive article in USA Today on-line. Curren […]timothy
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- LXer: Off and Running: Symbian Security Package Becomes Open Source July 11, 2009Published at LXer: The Symbian Foundation, established under a Nokia initiative, has released the first part of its Symbian Platform Security package under the free Eclipse Public License (EPL). ...LXer
- Difficulties with Yum July 11, 2009Just installed Fedora Core 5 and doing yum update However, when I type in this command I get: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core Read a...DJockey
- about mechanism of squid July 11, 2009Hi every body may anyone give me some information about mechanism of squid and how does it work,for example when client requests a web page, then what does squid do to response? thanks for any...nima0102
- Unable to check audio device box in user preferences July 11, 2009Hi, I am having trouble trying to check the box for audio devices in user preferences in linux mint 7. The box is greyed out even after unlocking. Can anyone help me, I am at a loss what to do.Cydge
- Xandros does not recognize my keyboard.on install July 11, 2009Xandros does not recognize my keyboard on install.gburgess9
- LXer: South America Interns: Forgotten OLPCorps Stepchildren July 11, 2009Published at LXer: What happens when One Laptop Per Child has an international internship program but without the deep funding from a One Here One There donation scheme? You get the forgotten South...LXer
- Lost bookmarks & lost email accounts in Evolution July 11, 2009I recently upgraded to 9.04, but didn't check it until today. Now I have lost my bookmarks in Firefox and lost my email accounts in Evolution. How do I get them back?IdahoSilverSage
- MySQL permission or crashing problem?? July 11, 2009Hi, I have MySQL up and running and can access it through webmin on centos 5.2. It runs fine and I can create/edit/do whatever to tables etc through webmin root login. But everytime I try and...patrickg28
- How to setup a default DNS July 11, 2009Hi, I have done the configuration of the wired network interface eth0 in the file /etc/network/interfaces, and it seems ok: Code: --------- #This file describes the network interfaces...cstrieder
- System monitoring daemon that can generate alerts July 11, 2009Hi Folks, I'm looking for some kind of monitoring daemon to beat the system near-freezes that I've been seeing on my Ubuntu install on a regular basis. These are not due to one particular app, and...nr0mx
Slashdot: Interviews
- Bethesda Speaks On Gamebryo Engine, Final Fallout 3 DLCPsxMeUP writes "Game Observer conducted an interview with Ashley Cheng, Production Director at Bethesda. He answered questions about the Gamebryo engine, why they prefer it over other engines and the advantages it presented while making Fallout 3. Cheng also talks a bit about what inspired their designers while making Fallout 3 and what is in store for […]Soulskill
- Jazz Technical Lead Erich Gamma Answers Your QuestionsLast week you asked Jazz technical lead Erich Gamma questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Here are his answers, along with many external links and places to continue the conversation if you are interested.Read more of this story at Slashdot.ScuttleMonkey
- Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich GammaAs IBM continues to build out Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked with Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively involved until JUnit 4. Dr. Gamma was also […]ScuttleMonkey
- CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your QuestionsLast week we solicited questions for US Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI), one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission. Here are his answers — along with contact information for him if you want to continue the conversation.Read more of this story at Slashdot.Roblimo
- Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity PlansUS Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI) is one of the chairs of the CSIS Cybersecurity Commission that released a comprehensive 96-page report on Dec. 8 under the title, Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency. The aim of the Commission is to help the incoming administration balance "cyberspace" security needs with civil liberties. We'd like […]Roblimo
- Blizzard Answers Your Questions, From BlizzconLast week we asked you to submit questions for several Blizzard employees on a wide range of issues. Since we undertook the pilgrimage to Blizzcon in person this year, we decided to use the question ideas as a guide rather than an absolute, so that it could be a little more conversational in tone. Below we have included the responses from Chris Sigaty, lead […]ScuttleMonkey
- Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That MatterIn just a few days, some of us will be making the trek to this year's Blizzcon event in Anaheim, CA. In addition to the interesting announcements, sneak peeks, and other distractions, we will be sitting down with several Blizzard employees to answer any questions you might have. So far we have scheduled some time with Chris Sigaty, lead producer on Star […]ScuttleMonkey
- Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth DebateWe participated in this project back in 2004. This year it's hosted by Walden University, and the format is a little less cumbersome than it was four years ago. So go ahead, ask some questions you'd like to see McCain and Obama answer, and they'll go into the pot along with questions submitted through other channels. Later this week you'l […]Roblimo
- Answers from Harald Welte, "VIA's Open Source Representative"Earlier this month you asked Harald about VIA's open source strategy and his work with gpl-violations.org. Here are his well-thought-out, informative answers.Read more of this story at Slashdot.Roblimo
- Ask Harald Welte, "VIA's open source representative"In this recent Slashdot post kernel hacker Harald Welte was characterized as "VIA's open source representative," but that is just one of many irons he has in the fire, as a glance at his Wikipedia bio will show. You can obviously ask Harald about many interesting things besides VIA's open source strategy — and before you ask about V […]Roblimo
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- Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 July 10, 2009Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 9.04 server with PHP5 support (through Fas […]
- Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny July 9, 2009Striping Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Debian Lenny This tutorial shows how to do data striping (segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be assigned to multiple physical devices in a round-robin fashion and thus written concurrently) across four single storage servers (running Debian Lenny) with G […]
- Installing Moovida Media Center On Ubuntu 9.04 July 9, 2009Installing Moovida Media Center On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial explains how you can install the Moovida media center on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Moovida is a media center "bringing the best of the internet to your TV screen. Automatically creating your own digital library you can browse from your sofa with a remote control. The elegant and easy to use in […]
- How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Debian Lenny July 8, 2009How To Set Up WebDAV With Lighttpd On Debian Lenny This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Debian Lenny server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded […]
- Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop July 7, 2009Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing Virtual […]
- Speed Up Your System With Preload On Ubuntu 9.04 July 7, 2009Speed Up Your System With Preload On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial explains how you can install preload on Ubuntu 9.04. preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.
- Using TCP And UDP Service Object In Firewall Builder July 6, 2009Using TCP And UDP Service Object In Firewall Builder This article continues the series of articles on Fireall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article demonstrates how you can work with TCP a […]
- Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 9.04 (Initiator And Target) July 5, 2009Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 9.04 (Initiator And Target) This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 9.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiat […]
- CentOS 5.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend July 3, 2009CentOS 5.3 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 5.3 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory acc […]
- Installing Adobe AIR 1.5.1 For Linux On Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64) July 2, 2009Installing Adobe AIR 1.5.1 For Linux On Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64) Adobe AIR is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop. With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications. This tutorial explains how you can install Adobe AIR 1.5.1 for Linux on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop (x86_64) and how you can install AIR applications.
LXer Linux News
- Off and Running: Symbian Security Package Becomes Open Source The Symbian Foundation, established under a Nokia initiative, has released the first part of its Symbian Platform Security package under the free Eclipse Public License (EPL).Ulrich Bantle
- South America Interns: Forgotten OLPCorps StepchildrenWhat happens when One Laptop Per Child has an international internship program but without the deep funding from a One Here One There donation scheme? You get the forgotten South America internships of Peru and Uruguay.Array
- Impression of Gran Canaria Desktop SummitMany of you who did not come to Akademy might be wondering how this meeting compares to the previous years' conferences. After all, aside from being in a sunny location, there are many different animals around here besides the usual trolls and dragons. Gnomes might be small, but they are noticable and they certainly make for interesting company. Read on […]Jos Poortvliet
- Howto: A Theme for KMahjonggThere are a number of simple games I like to play when waiting for a package to download or compile. Often the available themes don’t really suit me, and in any case I like to make themes or skins when I can. One of the easier packages to create an alternate theme for is KDE Mahjongg (kmahjongg), which I will demonstrate here using Inkscape and Gimp. With th […]Terry Hancock
- ACTL Rationale"Author’s Choice of Terminology License. Rationale, hardly, but a few points I’d like to write about. I originally thought it was all about restricting the user to call the operating system GNU/Linux. ... I found interesting. Because section 4 of the GNU GPL version 3 doesn’t restrict sub-licensing with the GPL."Array
- Linux, FOSS, and the Time-Honored Tradition of Charging More for LessThis was a real breakthrough, because for the first time little notebooks were actually priced small. Put Linux on them and you had an inexpensive, acceptably-performing, very portable machine plus the vast world of Free and free-of-cost software at your fingertips. But then the rot set in, as it so often does in the commercial, proprietary computer world, a […]Carla Schroder
- This week at LWN: VFAT patent avoidance and patent workaroundsBack in May, the proposed "no long file names" patch got a hostile reception on the linux-kernel mailing list. This patch, presumably aimed at working around Microsoft's VFAT patents, made the kernel unable to create long file names on VFAT filesystems. It was seen by many as a reduction in functionality without any sort of well-explained just […]Jonathan Corbet
- Review: Linux Mint 7 Is GloriousLinux Mint 7 "Gloria" was released a little while ago, so before it became too old of news, I thought I'd take a whack at experimenting with it for the sake of netbookers everywhere (and for myself, naturally). As I type this on gedit after about two weeks' use, let's just say that the system on my EeePC 1000 HE is, for the most part […]Array
- 10 Things for Linux Desktop Evangelists to PonderThere's always next year, right? If you're eager for the day of the Linux desktop to dawn, and you don't have the patience of a Cubs fan, here are some suggestions for community action that might be worth consideration. With Microsoft stumbling, the time just might be ripe to make an audacious move into the mainstream.Elbert Hannah
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Edition approaches end-of-lifeUbuntu Release Manager Steve Langasek has announced that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (code named Dapper Drake) Desktop Edition will reach its end-of-life on Tuesday the 14th of July, 2009. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was originally launched on the 1st of June, 2006 and included the 2.6.15 Linux kernel.Array
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