Last week we published Arch Linux vs. Ubuntu benchmarks to finally lay to rest that for the overall system performance the speed of the rolling Arch Linux distribution is not too different from that of Ubuntu when running with similar package versions.
Read more »KWin Can Cause A Performance Hit Too
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Testdrive PyGTK Front-end
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TestDrive is a project that makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine. Actually, it can be configured to download and run any URL-access ISO in a virtual machine.
Read more »Clang Gets Boosted By The Boost Libraries
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Clang, the C/Objective-C/C++ compiler front-end for the Low-Level Virtual Machine, and LLVM itself have a lot to be proud of lately. LLVM 2.7 was recently released with many new features, LLVM now has its own libstdc++ replacement, and LLVM is finding itself used in many places from a JIT engine in a Flash player to providing software acceleration in Gallium3D.
Read more »VoltDB launches next-generation free software OLTP DBMS
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VoltDB OLTP database management system (DBMS) is announced. Under the leadership of Postgres and Ingres co-founder, Mike Stonebraker, VoltDB has been developed as a next-generation, open-source DBMS that has been shown to process millions of transactions per second on inexpensive clusters of off-the-shelf servers.
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Work underway to keep Xen support in Fedora 13
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Ian Pratt, founder and chairman of Xen.org told me:
"Fedora 13 is still supported as a guest on Xen and work is underway in Xen.org to add platform support to Fedora 13 post-release for anyone wishing to leverage Fedora 13 as their production platform."
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More flexible firmware handling in debian-installer
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After a long break from debian-installer development, I finally found time today to return to the project. Having to spend less time working dependency based boot in debian, as it is almost complete now.
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NVIDIA 256 Beta Linux Driver Released
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NVIDIA has rolled out its first beta in the expected 256.xx driver series for Linux, Windows, and other supported platforms.
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Sphinx As MySQL Storage Engine (SphinxSE)
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SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server. So if you use Debian or Centos and install your MySQL from a .deb or .rpm package this is how you do it.
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Monitor Servers from Your Android Device with httpmon
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Checking whether a specific Web server is up and running is as easy as issuing the ping command in the terminal, but if you are looking for a more versatile tool that you can use while on the move, try httpmon for Android.
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Apache Derby gains sequences and user defined types
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The Java database gains sequences and user defined types in the latest update and closes a security hole
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Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 released
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Six months of bug fixes, a handful of new features, and a strong bridge to Rails 3, fix of couple of bugs in the HTML-safety changes that may lead to XSS attacks. Rails is free software web framework, optimized for programmers happiness and sustainable productivity.
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Perfect Backup Solution with Amazon S3 and aws
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Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage at low prices, which makes it an ideal solution for storing backups. But to make use of it, you need a piece of software that can actually interact with Amazon S3
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Smartmontools: Ya Mon!
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Last article we introduced the SMART capabilities of hard drives (who knew your drives were SMART?). In this article smartmontools, an application for examining the SMART attributes and trigger self tests, is examined.
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It's called sudo
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Organizations can no longer tolerate the security risks posed by intentional, accidental or indirect misuse of privileges. You will learn how to securely delegate privileges and authorization without disclosing the root password.
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Nginx Catch-All Host As Front End To Apache For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Lenny
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Apache has always been the web server of choice for me. It is a real beast when it comes to resources usage specially in a resource limited environment such as a VPS. I started playing with Nginx a lightweight, high performance web server. My area of interest was running Nginx as a reverse proxy and making it work in a Apache/ISPConfig 3 environment.
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