Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer
Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you’re doing real science. On a Playstation!
Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
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Ubuntu is NOT causing aggressive power management
The following things might instead cause aggressive power management settings :
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In-Depth Roadmap Analysis For Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04
The Hardy Heron Roadmap has over 130 new ideas that have been proposed thus far.
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Use Google Linux repositories in Ubuntu
Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.
First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
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Introducing Hecl, a mobile phone scripting language
The Hecl programming language makes it easy to script applications for your cell phone—with just a few lines of code, you can create applications that you can carry with you, everywhere.
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Pulse Audio - sound server -Linux
PulseAudio is a next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of "ear-candy" possible: from dynamically changing the volume of individual applications to hot-plugging support for many different devices.
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Debian-based router Linux achieves major update
Vyatta has achieved a major new release of its community-supported, Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at turning commodity x86 hardware into enterprise routers, firewalls, and VPN appliances. New features in Vyatta Community Edition 3 (VC3) include IPSec VPN, multilink PPP, and BGP scaling and security, the vendor says.
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Updates to KDE and the kernel
For MEPIS 7.0, KDE has been updated to version 3.5.8 and the kernel has been updated to 2.6.22-10. The nvidia driver has been updated to 100.14.19.
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Gnome's cool features : gnome-keyring & pam
"...As many know, Gentoo is about choice, and the default choice is to "opt-in". So if you install Gnome on Gentoo, you get a bare-bone Gnome experience, sometimes in stark contrast to what other distros do. So in order to level the playing field, I'll be writing about how to enable some of those cool features. Today's special : gnome-keyring's pam module...."
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Mint, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE
Last time out I was on an adventure of my lifetime, traveling to our Pune, India office to meet others in BMC's R&D Support team. I had taken my Dell D620, configured with Mint 3.1. It was reliable and trouble free.
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Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb
I’m prejudiced. I admit it in the first sentence. Ubuntu was the origin of my Linux history, and I’m still partial to it.
So I approach Fluxbuntu with a mix of hope and over-familiarity, and that might shine through because I really, really like it.
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Bluetooth in Ubuntu, the CLI way
Not knowing a thing about Bluetooth, I set out on a quest to learn more about this protocol — more specifically, how to use it in Ubuntu.
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Making Linux application user interfaces richer with OpenGL
One fascinating session (and one that shows how FOSSCamp works and why it's so productive) was given by Mirco Müller, who discussed using OpenGL in GTK applications.
Read more »KDE development platform appears
This Wednesday in KDE land sees the start of the Release Freeze for KDE 4.0, anticipating a final release in December. By then, KDE 4 will have been in development for two years and five months, counting from the aKademy conference in Malaga, Spain, in July 2005.
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Devices Lacking Linux Support Needed
We now have over 300 different developers signed up to help create, and maintain Linux drivers! What we need now is more companies participating in the project, we have the developers, but not enough work to keep them busy.
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