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‘freaking awesome’ – 3D support on nouveau

http://www.happyassassin.net

Nouveau’s 3D support recently became available in Rawhide / Fedora 13 with an update to the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. I was impressed when it ran Compiz, really impressed when it ran Neverball, but running Spring is nuts.

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X Server 1.8 Release Candidate Is Here

http://www.phoronix.com

Keith Packard has just made available the first release candidate of X Server 1.8 and confirms that its release schedule is still on track. Snapshots and the Git code for X Server 1.8 go back to last year, but with a planned release by the end of March, Keith has now started working on release candidates.

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Taking Command of the Terminal with GNU Screen

http://www.linux.com

GNU Screen is one of the most useful utilities you can have at your disposal if you spend any time at all working at the command line. Screen allows you to manage multiple shell sessions from one terminal window or console, view multiple shell sessions at the same time, and even log into the same session from more than one location at a time.

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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 4)

http://www.h-online.com

Several changes to the X86 and KVM code are to speed up the kernel's own hypervisor. The kernel developers once again revised and considerably extended the still emerging tracing infrastructure.

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Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization: Part I

http://arstechnica.com

Fast-forward to 2008, and virtualization has gone from a solution in search of a problem, to an explosive market with an array of real implementations on offer, to a word that's often mentioned in the same sentence with terms like "shakeout" and "consolidation." But whatever the state of "virtualization" as a buzzword, virtualization as a technology is definitely here to stay.

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Mnesia: A Distributed DBMS Rooted in Concurrency

http://www.developer.com

The story of how Mnesia got its name is probably apocryphal, but legend has it that the original name was Amnesia until an Ericsson executive declared that a database couldn't be called something associated with forgetting.

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Linux Terminal Server Project Cluster Edition (LTSP-Cluster)

http://stgraber.org

LTSP-Cluster can scale up to several thousands thin clients providing an enterprise-class infrastructure (load balancing, high availability, central management, monitoring) as well as large-scale remote access (Citrix like) for thousands of users at a fraction of the cost of a proprietary equivalent using open source technologies.

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Six Easy Steps to Make a Super Secure Linux Server

http://www.technicant.com

Curiously many Linux administrators out there are clueless about properly securing or configuring a server. The following steps can significantly increase the stability and security of any Linux server.

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15 Remote Desktop Solutions for Linux

http://www.mynitor.com

There are a wide range of remote desktop applications that are available that can be used to connect to Windows environment but there aren’t too many that can be used to remote desktop from Linux to Linux or Windows to Linux.

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How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS

http://www.phoronix.com

Since being let go by Novell last year where he worked on the RadeonHD Linux graphics driver and X.Org support within SuSE Linux, Luc Verhaegen has continued work on his VIA Unichrome DDX driver as well as other X.Org code and he has also become involved with the CoreBoot project that aims to create a free software BIOS for most chipsets and motherboards on the market.

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Traffic Analysis Using Debian Lenny

http://www.howtoforge.com

By using my Network Monitoring Appliance we noticed a link in MRTG always under heavy load. On this link a lot of different traffic aggregates, so we decided to analyze of what quantities of protocols and therefore applications the cumulative traffic consists.

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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 3) - Graphics

http://www.h-online.com

The next version of Linux is not only the first to offer the Nouveau KMS graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware, it also comes with a multitude of improvements for the two AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers which support Kernel-based Mode Setting (KMS).

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Real Time Data Plotting with GnuPlot

http://tech.shantanugoel.com

I wrote this script a few days ago to plot real-time / streaming data with gnuplot. The motivation was that I needed to test a piece of code for a touchscreen driver that I had written at work. The issue was that the UI wasn’t quite ready yet, so I wanted to test just the driver to be working fine.

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Rails 3.0: Beta release

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org

"You thought we were never going to get to this day, didn’t you? Ye of little faith. Because here is the first real, public release of Rails 3.0 in the form of a beta package that we’ve toiled long and hard over..." — see also: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs

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Set up OSOL PV Guests (build<=131) via virsh on Xen 3.4.3 Dom0 on top of Ubuntu 9.10 Server

http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com

This posting is actually responding recent entry in Martin's Blog
Martin states:-
Then I tried out a number of current linux distributions, but except for openSuSE none had a dom0 kernel out of the box which really is a shame. Seems I need to look more closely into KVM with virtio support

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