July 2009
21 posts
Red Hat: 'We spend over $100 million a year to... →
Matthew Szulik, Red Hat’s former CEO and current chairman, has been in semi-retirement for the past two years, but you’d never know it from listening to his interview with the BBC’s Peter…
Ksplice: Update computers without rebooting →
Every enterprise wants to harden its servers and increase uptime, but security updates often require reboots. Companies that want to please their customers need a better way to apply…
The Fastest Linux Boot Yet? 1 second →
The race for the fastest Linux boot has been going on for about a year at this point and now we’ve got a new winner. Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista today is announcing the demonstration of a 1…
Kestrel startup script for Centos/RHLN/Fedora →
Can’t find it anywhere so have to write a dirty one: #!/bin/bash
#
# Init file for kestrel
#
# Written by #
# chkconfig: - 95 26
# description: A message queue port from starling #
# processname:…
H&M Barcelona Gets Graphic | Trend.Land →
via http://trendland.net/2008/09/24/hm-barcelona-gets-graphic/
bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce →
Harness the power of distributed computing using everyday Unix command-line tools and a clever little bash script. [This is pretty cool. - Sander]
PRjump.jpg (JPEG Image, 595x400 pixels) →
via http://www.jamesjean.com/illustrations/PRjump.jpg
i can read →
via http://icanread.tumblr.com/post/117419030
Legalized drugs, now open source. Those crazy... →
While some organizations continue to hide their open-source adoption, NOiV (Nederland Open in Verbinding), has published a map of over 200 open-source products currently in use by the Dutch…
Fedora: A Hat with a History →
Fedora is a giant among giants, in the shadow of a giant from which it was born. But every giant is born of humble beginnings. So to understand the giant, you first have to understand from where they…
A Root-less X Server Nears Reality →
One of the benefits of moving the different graphics hardware drivers over to using kernel mode-setting, an in-kernel GPU memory manager (whether it be GEM or TTM), and other newer X innovations is…
