“...StumpWM grew out of the authors’ frustration with writing ratpoison in C. Very quickly we realized we were building into ratpoison lispy-emacs style paradigms.
Read more »The second day of Kernel Summit 2008; criticism of Ubuntu at the opening of the LPC
A short report from the Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference by heise online.
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Tracking Linux CPU Performance Statistics
Each system-wide Linux performance tool provides different ways to extract similar statistics. Although no tool displays all the statistics, some of the tools display the same statistics.
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High-end developers choose commercial Linux
Developers are choosing commercial, rather than non-commercial, distributions of Linux when it comes to building high-performance or mission-critical systems, according to new research.
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How To Manage Apache Resources Limits With mod_slotlimit (Debian Etch)
mod_slotlimit is an Apache module that using dynamic slot allocation algorithm and static rules, can manage resources used for each running site.
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Call for testing of next Debian Installer release
"We are approaching the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) release and the Debian Installer team is working to fix the remaining issues for it. The Debian Installer Release Candidate 1 is being prepared and we are short in time to make fixes.
Read more »Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters
"Hello,
it has been more than three years since the last "Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters", high time for an update on the port:
* Snapshot releases
* Base and toolchain status
* Xen support
* Autobuilder availability and archive coverage improved
* Developer machine
* Summer of Code 2008
* Still no debian-installer
..."
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Cook up tasty custom Ubuntu live CDs with UCK
Live CDs let you boot an operating system without installing any software on a hard drive. The Ubuntu Customization Kit, tastefully called UCK, lets you add your favorite applications into the distro.
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Pytube - Best YouTube,Google manager, downloader and video converter for Ubuntu Linux
PyTube is a GUI for various command-line tools such as:youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and others.It allows you to resize, rotate, apply an external mp3 into a video, generate a 10 to 30 seconds mp3 ring tone.
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Dress up your Python scripts with EasyGui
In many cases, adding a graphical interface to Python scripts means getting your hands dirty with TKinter or other GUI programming kits. This exercise is usually reserved for users who have already acquired decent Python programming skills, as it requires some serious code wizardry.
Read more »Rails 2.1.1: Lots of bug fixes
"Rails 2.1.1 is another maintenance release that includes a bunch of bug fixes..."
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Announcing GNU Virtual Private Ethernet (GVPE), version 2.2
"I am happy to announce the release of GVPE version 2.2, after way too much time has passed without a release..." --
* GNU Virtual Private Ethernet - Summary [Savannah]
* gvpe - Free Software Directory - Free Software Foundation
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SymbolicWeb: Ajax and Comet with Lisp
"SymbolicWeb is a GUI or widget server-centric framework for developing web applications. It is written in Common Lisp. SymbolicWeb is free software licensed under the AGPLv3 + GPL linking exception..." (source wikipedia) -- via Lisp, GUI and Web (and Comet)
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DebianOnFreeRunner - Debian Wiki
Learn how to install Debian GNU/Linux on the OpenMoko Freerunner.
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What if copyright didn't apply to binary executables?
By rights, copyright really shouldn’t apply to binary executables, because they are purely “functional” (not “expressive”) works. The decision to extend copyright to binaries was an economically-motivated anomaly, and that choice has some counter-intuitive and detrimental side-effects.
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