10 Amazing Linux Desktop Themes MyDigilife: "Dust is a concept for a new, refreshing look for Ubuntu. The idea was to take the defining aesthetic elements of Ubuntu and remix it into something clean, modern, functional, and unique...." (Nov 23, 2008)
Linux Today Features
Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks Phoronix: "With Fedora 10 finally entering the world earlier this week, we have performed benchmarks comparing the performance of Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10. In our testing we used both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds of each distribution and then ran a series of automated tests through the Phoronix Test Suite." Link fixed--ed. (Nov 29, 2008)
Small Features
2008 State Of The Penguin Report - Part 1 Blog of Helios: "Blog of helios is happy to publish their findings after over 1000 separate Linux installs. This will be the first part of a three part weekly series. We hope there is something for all of us to learn within." Nov 26, 2008
Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System (Dec 3, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (1743 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "With the EXT4 file-system being marked as stable in the forthcoming Linux 2.6.28 kernel, and some Linux distributions potentially switching to it as an interim step until the btrfs file-system is ready, we decided it was time to benchmark this journaled file-system for ourselves"
The Day The Web Went Dead (Dec 3, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (2102 reads)
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(feedback) Forbes: "On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel severed its last connection to Cogent Communications, disconnecting two of the Internet's five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other."
The world's fastest computers are Linux computers (Nov 29, 2008, 00:02 UTC) (2784 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "There are fast computers, and then there are Linux fast computers. Every six months, the Top 500 organization announces "its ranked list of general purpose systems that are in common use for high end applications." In other words, supercomputers. And, as has been the case for years now, the fastest of the fast are Linux computers."
Obvious Mistakes Caused Europeana Site Failure (Nov 26, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (1629 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: ""Brussels, we have a problem." That was the message to the paymasters behind Europeana, an Internet portal designed to pool all of Europe's most treasured cultural icons, as it tried unsuccessfully to launch last week."
Linux Still Tops in Supercomputers (Nov 26, 2008, 13:03 UTC) (1682 reads)
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(feedback) 451 CAOS Theory: "When I was a reporter a few years ago, I began covering the fast rise of Linux to dominance on the Top500 Supercomputer list. Since the list comes out every six months, I would end up getting a response like, "Is it that time of year again already?""
osCommerce is Dead: Long Live the NEW osCommerce Project (Nov 25, 2008, 16:47 UTC) (1172 reads)
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(feedback) ECommerce-Guide: "Fed up with waiting for eight long years with no final product in sight and no visible development activity, a splinter group of osCommerce programmers has left the dormant project and officially formed a new osCommerce project."
Migration from Apache to Lighttpd (Nov 25, 2008, 05:34 UTC) (1498 reads)
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(feedback) Packt: "In this article by Andre Bogus, we will be focusing on migrating from Apache to Lighttpd web server. Lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems, as it has a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set, such as FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, and many more."
Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner (Nov 23, 2008, 06:03 UTC) (1644 reads)
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(feedback) Debian Admin: "MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Within seconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can be improved."
Setting Up Master-Master Replication On Four Nodes With MySQL 5 On Debian Etch (Nov 22, 2008, 03:03 UTC) (1409 reads)
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(feedback) Howtoforge: "This tutorial explains how you can set up MySQL master-master replication on four MySQL nodes (running on Debian Etch). The difference to a two node master-master replication (which is explained here) is that if you have more than two nodes, the replication goes in a circle, i.e., with four nodes, the replication goes from node1 to node2, from node2 to node3, from node3 to node4, and from node4 to node1."
Nvidia Announces "Personal Supercomputer" (Nov 21, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (1927 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "Nvidia, working with several partners, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, powered by a graphics processing unit based on Nvidia's Cuda parallel computing architecture."
The AIX Administrator's Guide to Learning Linux (Nov 21, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (1366 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Most system administrators planning to install Linux on IBM System p eventually run into an important question: Which Linux distribution should I install? This article compares two distributions from Red Hat and Novell, and weighs the pros and cons of each."
Mounting Xen Virtual Machine Storage on Physical Hosts (Nov 20, 2008, 08:33 UTC) (1218 reads)
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(feedback) SearchEnterpriseLinux: "In the event that something happens to a Xen virtual machine (VM) that prevents you from starting it, it's a good practice to have the virtual machine storage back end mounted in the Linux file system of the Xen-based server. By doing so, you'll be able to repair the VM quickly and painlessly. In this tip, I'll cover how to do this for physical devices that are used as storage back ends."
First Interplanetary Internet Test Completed (Nov 19, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (1058 reads)
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(feedback) NASA: "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth."
The Super Windows That...Couldn't (Nov 18, 2008, 18:35 UTC) (2686 reads)
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(feedback) Open Enterprise: "One of the more bizarre accusations flung by Microsoft at GNU/Linux over the years is that it doesn't scale. This is part of a larger campaign to portray it as a kind of "toy" operating system - fine for low-end stuff, but nothing you'd want to run your enterprise on."
USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase (Nov 18, 2008, 16:35 UTC) (2059 reads)
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(feedback) Wired: "Fasten your seat belts -- data transfer is going into overdrive.
The ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, is on track to make its first major upgrade in eight years -- a tenfold speed increase over the current USB 2.0 standard."
WFTL Bytes! for Nov 14, 2008 (Nov 17, 2008, 08:01 UTC) (1254 reads)
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(feedback) WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, November 14, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. In today's news, the economy just keeps on getting worse, proprietary software is really bad, making copyright into copywrong, Ubuntu gets ARMed, and the Sun goes down on a lot of jobs."
Basic Veritas Cluster Server Troubleshooting (Nov 16, 2008, 08:01 UTC) (1414 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "And, here we go again; quick, pointed bullets of info. Bite-sized bits of troubleshooting advice that focus on solving the problem, rather than understanding it. That sounds awful, I know, but, sometimes, you have to get things done and, let's face it, if it's the job or your arse, who cares about the why? Leave that for philosophers and academics."
ImageStream: Who Needs to Read Encrypted Traffic? (Nov 14, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (1584 reads)
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(feedback) ISP Planet: "Instead, Utter advocates a system his company has come up with that uses some simple open source concepts to preserve user privacy. He calls this system Per User Fair Queuing (PUFQ)."
Webmail Directory: LinuxMagic's Tuxedo (Nov 14, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (1095 reads)
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(feedback) ISP Planet: "The Canadian Linux development house LinuxMagic, founded in 1997, is a subsidiary of the hosting and support company Wizard IT Services. From the beginning, according to company president and CEO Michael Peddemors, LinuxMagic has been focused on serving ISPs and telcos."
Linux: Setup iSCSI Target ( SAN ) (Nov 13, 2008, 20:34 UTC) (1430 reads)
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(feedback) nixCraft: "Linux target framework (tgt) aims to simplify various SCSI target driver (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SRP, etc) creation and maintenance. The key goals are the clean integration into the scsi-mid layer and implementing a great portion of tgt in user space."
Scale Your File System With Parallel NFS (Nov 13, 2008, 06:04 UTC) (2118 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "The Network File System (NFS) is a stalwart component of most modern local area networks (LANs). But NFS is inadequate for the demanding input- and output-intensive applications commonly found in high-performance computing—or, at least it was. The newest revision of the NFS standard includes Parallel NFS (pNFS), a parallelized implementation of file sharing that multiplies transfer rates by orders of magnitude. Here's a primer."
The Rise of Virtual Appliances (Nov 12, 2008, 17:34 UTC) (1362 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Virtual appliances deliver focused services in a lightweight package. With all of the talk around virtualization being large system optimization, why single-purpose machines getting so much attention?"
Installing Xen On CentOS 5.2 (i386) (Nov 11, 2008, 08:34 UTC) (1422 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.2 system (i386)."
Sun Expands 'Open' Storage Line (Nov 10, 2008, 22:03 UTC) (1049 reads)
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(feedback) Wall Street Journal: "Sun Microsystems Inc. is making another move to expand its small position in data storage, as the computer maker continues to take advantage of the "open-source" movement that has shaken up parts of the industry."
How Two of the World's Largest Websites Use Linux for High Availability (Nov 10, 2008, 18:33 UTC) (2390 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux Distillery: "Pop quiz: you have a web site and you want it to be popular. It must scale to tens, hundreds of thousands, even millions of visitors. It has to be snappy and responsive. What server platform will you host it on? Here’s what two of the world's most popular sites - Wikipedia and Digg - went with, and it wasn't Windows."
Sun Pushes ZFS Deeper Into Solaris (Nov 1, 2008, 10:02 UTC) (3166 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "Sun finally extends the file system with its Solaris 10 update -- giving new capabilities to system admins that had already been available elsewhere in the OS."
A Better File System for Linux? (Oct 30, 2008, 20:36 UTC) (3209 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "Oracle's Better File System for Linux (BTRFS) is gearing up but what will it do and who will use it?"
Linux/Unix Shell Script To Find Your Google Page Rank (Oct 28, 2008, 22:02 UTC) (1613 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "While our index rank script took a URL and a search term (or terms) and returned your relative index rank at that particular moment in time (e.g. It would let you know that your website was the 435th listing in a search for "fig trees," or something of that nature), this script focuses, simply, on the Google Page Rank (PR) of any specific URL."
It's Time for a FOSS Community Code of Conduct (Oct 28, 2008, 19:02 UTC) (1371 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "Personal abuse, quotes taken out of context, misrepresentations, outright lies -- if you have any visibility in the free and open source software (FOSS) community, the chances are that you regularly face all these kinds of attacks. You can try to answer them, but the people responsible seem to have endless energy for debate."
Open Source Software Proves Affordable, Flexible for NIH, DoD (Oct 23, 2008, 07:31 UTC) (1851 reads)
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(feedback) Federal Times: "This system, known as Biowulf, has 6,500 processors communicating over a fast network and 8,800 gigabytes of memory. It would have cost the agency millions of dollars to buy enough software to make such a supercomputer possible."
IBM Launches Linux 'Baby' Mainframe (Oct 23, 2008, 04:31 UTC) (2738 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "IBM is targeting mid-size business customers that use Linux with a new "baby" mainframe that costs just a fraction of the amount charged for the high-end mainframe IBM released in February."
Mr. Wi-Fi Goes to Washington? (Oct 22, 2008, 22:01 UTC) (1152 reads)
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(feedback) InternetNews: "As the presidential election approaches, there's little discussion in the media of the leading candidates' positions regarding technology issues. While that's more than understandable when immediate concerns like the economic crisis loom large, the differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on technology policy are worth a look."
Researchers use Open Source Virtual World for Language Teaching (Oct 16, 2008, 10:34 UTC) (1281 reads)
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(feedback) IT News: "Dubbed 'Realtown', the newly-developed wireless environment incorporates a virtual supermarket, schools, pharmacy and bank, as well as background sounds that may be enabled to increase the environment’s realism."
Virtualization With XenServer Express 5.0.0 (Oct 16, 2008, 07:34 UTC) (2008 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This Howto covers the installation of XenServer Express 5.0.0 and the creation of virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator console. XenServer Express is the free virtualization platform from Citrix, the company behind the well known Xen virtualization engine."
Opinion: High-Performance Nonsense (Oct 13, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (2358 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "Quiz time. Get out your No. 2 computers and answer the following question: For the fastest and most reliable high-end computing for your enterprise, will your operating system be 1) Linux, 2) Solaris, 3) OpenVMS or 4) Windows?"
Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases (Oct 11, 2008, 02:07 UTC) (3006 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp."
