So a release is coming around, but there is nothing stopping you from testing the next development version of compiz right now!
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Add a Pandora Screenlet to your Linux desktop
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If you haven’t experienced Pandora radio you don’t know what you’re missing. Pandora can stream music to your web browser specifically tuned to your tastes. Imagine having that ability right on your desktop – always at your fingertips? Pretty cool eh?
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CentOS 5.5 Finally Released
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A month and a half has passed since the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, but CentOS 5.5 has finally made it out into the world as the community equivalent to the RHEL5.5 packages.
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Article ZFS data integrity testing and more random ZFS thoughts.
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Earlier this week I came across this blog posting about data integrity testing on ZFS title: ZFS data integrity tested. It was a few months old from Robin Harris’ blog Storage Bits. I guess the most exciting part was validating Sun Microsystem’s claims to ZFS having the ability to correct data corruption even with error injection to both the disk and memory.
Read more »Ubuntu Developer Summit Brussels: Prototype tool helps tracking kernel patches
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Canonical's Steve Conklin presented the Patchtracker in the kernel roundtable during the first day of the international Ubuntu Developer Summit.
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Open MySQL security holes
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Oracle has rather clumsily publicised quite detailed information about the security fixes in the forthcoming version 5.1.47 of its recently acquired MySQL server
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Btrfs May Be The Default File-System In Ubuntu 10.10
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Earlier this week we reported that Ubuntu has plans for the Btrfs file-system in 2011 and 2012 by providing support for installing Ubuntu Linux to a Btrfs file-system. This information was based upon documents coming out of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, but it turns out that Canonical may actually deploy Btrfs this year.
Read more »Kernel development statistics for 2.6.34 and beyond
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As of this writing, the current kernel prepatch is 2.6.34-rc6. A couple more prepatches are most likely due before the final release, but the number of changes to be found there should be small. In other words, 2.6.34 is close to its final form, so it makes sense to take a look at what has gone into this development cycle. In a few ways, 2.6.34 is an unusual kernel.
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Tune your Linux kernel with sysctl
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Today most kernels work out of the box with most hardware. But there are times when you could squeeze out a bit more performance or even lighten your kernel on the fly. You can do that with the sysctl command.
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Linux: Configure Xorg X11 Window System
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My xorg.conf file is missing as I deleted accidentally for some reason. Now, Xorg try to probe my hardware on every startup. How do I configure Xorg under Debian or any Linux distro / operating systems?
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Your own OEM configuration: YaST Firstboot
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The YaST firstboot utility is a special kind of configuration workflow that can be run after the basic system is installed. It is started on the first boot of the system and guides a user through a series of steps that allow for easier configuration of their desktops.
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Django 1.2 released
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After many months of work, authors of free software high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design, proud to announce the release of Django 1.2. There's so much cool stuff packed into it that even a summary can't do it justice.
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Google heats up native code for Chrome OS
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Google has released a preliminary software development kit for Native Client, its native-code browser plug-in. The company unveiled its Native Client SDK "developer preview" with a blog post on Wednesday, calling it "an important first step in making Native Client more accessible as a tool for developing real web applications."
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 5) - Drivers
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Hundreds of new and improved drivers significantly improve hardware support in the 2.6.34 kernel
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Software Insecurity is Our Biggest Weakness
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Speaking at the Secure360 Conference here, Marcus Ranum, CSO of Tenable Network Security, said that the country's reliance on commercial off-the-shelf software has made us more susceptible to attack, not to mention less innovative and creative. Why don't we have a government coding office? We have a government printing office," he said. "Why don't we have a strategic software reserve?
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