The CollabNet-sponsored Subversion open source community today announced the general availability of Subversion® 1.5, the world’s leading Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool for managing software development and maintenance across distributed teams.
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Write fast 3D software without a PhD
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There are two kinds of fast in programming: Fast to code and fast to run. 3D applications and games are known to be speedy. But the time it takes to write and understand the code behind it? Not so much. On the flipside, many abstraction layers designed to make coding easier usually aren’t very efficient. So where’s the median? Meet Pyglet for Python.
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Open Source replicant can copy itself for free
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A 3D printer has been prototyped which can create real copies of its own component parts, a self-replicating machine. The people behind it have kept costs down to less than a thousand bucks and are developing it under a GNU public license. They say you will be able to get the machine to copy itself and then give away the copies for free.
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Quick Command Line Tip - Recursively Delete Files of a Certain Type
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Applications can create a lot of temporary files sometimes, and these files aren’t always cleaned up automatically. An example of this is when you run Python applications. Particularly if you’re a Python developer, your source code directories stack up with a .pyc version of each file, which is the cached compiled copy of the script.
Read more »Kernel space: Interview with Andrew Morton
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Years ago, there was a great deal of worry about the possibility of burning out Linus. Life seems to have gotten easier for him since then; now instead, I've heard concerns about burning out Andrew. It seems that you do a lot; how do you keep the pace and how long can we expect you to stay at it?
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How to prevent a package from being updated in Debian
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If you want to update all the packages other than one in your debian server follow this procedure...
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Why A SysAdmin Chose Ubuntu
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If you work as a System Administrator - or really any of the IT-type support roles - you may be similar to me. Specifically, I’m torn between two extremes. On the one hand, I have an innate (or perhaps adopted through hard knocks) desire to control absolutely every aspect of my machine.
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Quad-core PowerPC workstation runs Linux
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Terra Soft Solutions announced a development workstation billed as the heir to the Apple PowerMac G5 Quad, except more open. The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) PowerStation offers four PowerPC cores clocked at 2.5GHz, up to 32GB RAM, and four bays for serially attached SCSI (SAS) drives.
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Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.0: Package Management, with Duncan
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In this article we will be covering all of the changes in and around the package management stack in the upcoming openSUSE 11.0. The new package management is among the fastest, most memory efficient and featureful PM stacks available. There have been a plethora of both visual and behind-the-scenes changes.
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Debian GNU/Linux powers Max Planck Institute 32.8 TFlops supercomputer
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A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics have created Germany's 4th largest supercomputer by using Debian GNU/Linux.
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Chapter 3: Configuring your project with Autoconf
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We should all be very grateful to David MacKenzie for having the foresight to, metaphorically speaking, stop and sharpen the ax. Otherwise we'd still be writing (copying) and maintaining long, complex hand-coded configure scripts today.
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Add multitouch gesture support to a TouchPad-equipped laptop
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Multitouch interfaces provide a great deal of benefits for integrating new interaction modes within applications. Newer hardware and drivers on Mac OS X and Microsoft® Windows® allow for a variety of gestures beyond point and click that create more efficient application navigation.
Read more »Open Source Forum Shootout - phpBB
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In the last post in this multi-part series, I’m going to look at arguably one of the most popular PHP free forum solutions out there, phpBB. It is designed to be feature-rich and a complete solution for building an online forum.
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ocaml 3.10.2 is in testing
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"As per title: OCaml 3.10.2 (... and friends of course) today has entered testing, as such it will be released with Debian Lenny. Yay..."
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GCC 4.3.1 Released
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"GCC 4.3.1 has been released. GCC 4.3.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.3.0 relative to previous GCC releases..."
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