While there is now DRM support in the Linux 2.6.33 kernel for the Nouveau driver that carries the bits for kernel mode-setting, 2D (EXA) acceleration, and other fundamental functions on NVIDIA graphics processors, the Gallium3D driver still is incomplete. However, a new Mesa DRI driver has emerged for Nouveau that provides *working* 3D support for older NVIDIA hardware.
Read more »Facebook re-write takes PHP to an enterprise past Remember C++? They do
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Facebook's re-written PHP to transform the dynamic language for fast performance on web-scale server farms without adding additional hardware. The site's engineers have announced HipHop, which turns the popular and dynamic PHP code into highly optimized but static C++ and then compiles it using the GNU C++ compiler, g++.
Read more »haxTuple Contest - Hack open source ERP, win an iPad
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xTuple, creators of the leading open source ERP, accounting, and CRM system, is looking for a few good hackers. By "hackers," of course, we mean developers willing to get involved in source code. The classical use of the term.
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iptstate - Top-like state for netfilter/iptables
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iptstate displays information held in the IP Tables state table in real-time in a top-like format. Output can be sorted by any field, or any field reversed.
Read more »Facebook plans PHP changes
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On Tuesday, Facebook is expected to unveil changes to PHP, the language that helped make the social networking site a success - along with millions of other web sites. SD Times has outed the planned change here. Facebook wouldn't provide details when contacted by The Reg but said it would make more details available Tuesday morning, Pacific time.
Read more »How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny
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mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Lenny server.
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No, you can’t do that with H.264
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A lot of commercial software comes with H.264 encoders and decoders, and some computers arrive with this software preinstalled. This leads a lot of people to believe that they can legally view and create H.264 videos for whatever purpose they like. Unfortunately for them, it ain’t so.
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Get Linux Certified
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Linux is an OS that conjures up images of computer nerds hunched over their keyboards in the quest for digital divinity while following the doctrine of open source and free software for all. Get Linux certified and wear that badge proudly on your chest!
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Free download : GNU/Linux Advanced Administration
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The GNU/Linux systems have reached an important level of maturity, allowing to integrate them in almost any kind of work environment, from a desktop PC to the sever facilities of a big company. In the module called "The GNU/Linux operating system", the main contents are related with system administration. This book is the main documentation for the module.
Read more »Advice on building a Linux box
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I get a lot of questions on Linux hardware: “What’s the best piece of hardware X for Linux?” “Should I go route A since I’m using Linux?” Which video card? Which sound card? Which networking card? Processor? Motherboard? Will it all work with Linux?
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Multitouch screens in Linux/Xorg/GTK+
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Here's a video demonstrating multitouch support all along the stack, including Linux 2.6.31, Xorg 7.5 (with XInput2) and Xinput2-enabled GTK+ (Experimental branch)
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How to destroy your community
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Josh Berkus is well known as a PostgreSQL hacker, but, as it happens, he also picked up some valuable experience during his stint at "The Laboratory for the Destruction of Communities," otherwise known as Sun Microsystems. That experience has been distilled into a "patented ten-step method" on how to free a project of unwelcome community involvement.
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How to configure maximum performance storage space for Debian GNU / Linux on IBM DS8300
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The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines.
But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux.
See how to ask for performance data storage space on them. Or what you need to configure on them.
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Linux super-duper admin tools: Strace
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Strace is a utility that can trace system calls. If you're wondering what system calls are, they are a translation mechanism that provides interface between a process and the operating system (kernel). These calls can be intercepted and read, allowing for a better understanding of what a process is trying to do at a given runtime.
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Get to know Apache Click Java EE
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Get introduced to Apache Click, a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Web application framework that enables the creation of Web applications without using Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns or JavaServer Pages (JSP). This article provides examples of displaying a simple Web page and creating a Web form that submits data that is displayed on a different Web page.
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