You have 5,000 or 50,000 machines to install and manage across the country, at a thousand distant locations into your enterprise. Such massive GNU / Linux installation and management for corporations needs suitable tools or become a nightmare.
Read more »Massive scale installation and management tools for Debian GNU/Linux (part 1)
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New Cray supercomputer based on Linux
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has launched the Cray XT5 family of supercomputers, which it says is "the world's most scalable Linux-based supercomputer".
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Keeping Command History across Multiple Sessions
The bash shell maintains a history of the commands you entered. You can re-execute a command by recalling it from the history, without having to re-type it.
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Four ways to extract the current directory name
When you're programming a shell script, you often only need the current directory name, not the whole path that the pwd command returns. Here are four ways you can extract only the current directory.
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Students develop supercomputer
A team of students of Federal Institute of Science and Technology at Mokkannoor here on Monday claimed to have developed a super computing system called ‘Dakshina cluster series - I’. The system was designed and developed, as part of the Centre for High Performance Computing project initiated by the Computer Science Department. Team leader C.
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Anatomy of the Linux file system
When it comes to file systems, Linux® is the Swiss Army knife of operating systems. Linux supports a large number of file systems, from journaling to clustering to cryptographic. Linux is a wonderful platform for using standard and more exotic file systems and also for developing file systems.
Read more »NexentaOS: Gnu OpenSolaris
Surprisingly it is pretty easy to get NexentaOS desktop installed, gnome appears to be the default desktop of choice. Interestingly NexentaOS is not using the standard Sun Solaris package management tools but Debian apt style for software management
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Entertainer - New Media Center GPL'd And Calling For Developers
Lauri Taimila has released his media center "Entertainer" under the GPL, and is calling for Developers. Entertainer aims to be a simple and easy-to-use media center solution. It uses python, the gstreamer multimedia framework, and the Clutter UI-library, which allows sleek OpenGL animated user interfaces.
Read more »Beginners guide to database administration tools
Welcome to an introduction for the beginner to the basic manipulation of the MySQL database with free software. The purpose of this article is to show how universally straightforward it is to get started with installing and applying a high-grade enterprise ready database like MySQL, and to learn how to manipulate it via numerous free software approaches.
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Monitor your drives to extend their life
Last week saw a slew of articles suggesting that Ubuntu Linux was radically reducing the life of any hard disk it was installed on. The truth is a little more complicated than that.
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An introduction to the visual features of GNU Screen
Many people here use GNU Screen, and I've not seen extensive coverage of the things you can do with the status-line in the past, so I thought a brief overview of a couple of visual settings wouldn't be amiss. Read on for more details.
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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.
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How to install KAlarm
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Linux device driver drama: Who will deliver support, code sharing?
Device drivers can make or break an operating system. The best engineered kernel is useless if applications running on it cannot interface with the outside world or if device manufacturers cannot readily support it with their wares.
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ATI Open vs. Closed-Source AIGLX Performance
We have taken an ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB PCI-E graphics card, which is supported by both the Radeon and fglrx drivers, and have compared their Compiz performance in a few different scenarios.
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