In this Monday interview, we meet Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the main VLC developers and President of the VideoLAN non-profit organisation
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Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic
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Two utilities to automatically download, compile, install, and configure X11rdp on your Debian/Debian-derived systems.
The second utility will present you with a list of Desktop environments and a list of users to configure their RDP sessions. Will also upon request, create a PolicyKit policy so that remote users can perform the similar priveleged tasks that local desktop users can.
Read more »Simple PHP Diff Script - Shows Line Changes in Bold Text
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"Here's a simple PHP diff script I wrote for no particular reason. Its output is similar to how Wikipedia does it, though admittedly, a lot simpler and inferior. It works really well for predictable comparisons, like two files that are mostly the same or a directory listing where some files have been renamed, added or removed.
Read more »Some Linux developers joining Concervancy's compliance effort
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Linux developer Matthew Garrett leads 6 other Linux copyright holders to Software Freedom Conservancy's free software license compliance program: "I'm glad to put my copyrights forward for this new initiative, and welcome any Linux kernel copyright holders who wish to join us to reach out to Conservancy via compliance@sfconservancy.org."
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Debian Linux kernel tuning low latency small files / Linux blog / Tech Force - Linux Blog
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E-mail servers, data base servers, file servers, web servers struggle to cope with LATENCY on accessing millions of small files under heavy concurrent load.
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Linux Kernel Browsing and Hacking using KDevelop
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One of the most frequent request from kernel newbies is a way to easily explore its source code. LXR or ctags somehow do the job, but require tedious configuration and work on the entire source, producing zillions of references to unused drivers. kdev-kernel is a plugin that turns KDevelop into the ultimate kernel browsing (and hacking?) tool.
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Debian "Wheezy" will freeze in one week
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Debian testing "Wheezy" is to be frozen on 30th June in preparation for the subsequent release of the stable Debian 7.0 Wheezy sometime down the road. If you want something included, better do it now.
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Wikimedia presents new visual editor
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The Wikimedia Foundation has launched a new, second prototype “visual editor” for Wikimedia projects. It is an environment that won’t require everyone to learn special markup language in order to contribute. This is part of the effort to turn more readers into editors. Jump in and help develop it!
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GRUB 2.00 released
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Grub 2 reaches stable. New features and appearance. Since this version has a round number it has been paid special attention
to, and hopefully, represents higher quality.
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Quake 3 Source Code Review
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id Software has a history of releasing the source code for their older games under the GPL. Coder Fabien Sanglard has been taking it upon himself to go through each of these releases.
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Neon KVM Can Help You Test New KDE Releases
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Project Neon provides daily builds of KDE modules for Kubuntu. It is an easy way to get the latest code without having to build the entire KDE-SVN tree and maintain the checkout. The Project Neon team has developed another product—Project Neon KVM Image. Users can download an image and deploy it anywhere, using KVM virtualization technology.
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Tips and Tricks to Optimize MySQL
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To ensure your MySQL database information can be accessed in the shortest time possible, you need to learn a few tricks to speed up data retrieval.
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Useful one-liners for sed
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The GNU sed (stream editor) is a very powerful but somewhat difficult tool to figure out. This collection of carefully selected and explained one-liners allows you to wield the full potential of the wonderful tool.
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Help test new version of Debian installer
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The Debian Installer team announced the first beta release of the installer for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". This new release includes various improvements in different areas, like booting, Linux kernel, APT, low memory installs, and networking. It also uses the new official theme "Joy". The installer supports 73 languages, of which 56 are fully translated.
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ZFS multithreaded sustained random small files synchronous write IOPS
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multithreaded sustained random small files synchronous write IOPS
It is the worst case scenario under heavy load.
And exactly what e-mail and database servers have to cope with under really heavy load.
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