I have benchmarked various Linux filesystems using different blocksizes and workloads on an mdadm RAID 1 setup using two Western Digital 500 GB SATA 3.0 drives and a 3ware 9550XS 4-port hardware RAID card (which I had trouble getting to work initially). It's not as extensive as I would have liked, but I came across some interesting results.
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Benchmarking Linux filesystems on software RAID 1
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OpenMoko FreeRunner to be available for $399 - Open-source Linux handset set to launch
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Fans of the OpenMoko Neo1973 open-source Linux handset will be glad to hear that they'll soon be able to get their hands on the Neo1973's successor in the near future. The OpenMoko FreeRunner sports a faster processor than its predecessor and adds three-axis motion sensors to the mix.
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Have your own OpenID URL without becoming a provider
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Many services, such as AOL and myOpenID, provide OpenID accounts to use on whatever site that accepts them. You simply type in your OpenID url and hit Enter. But what if your given ID was randomly generated, or the username you wanted wasn’t available?
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GNU tar 1.20
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Howto Crack Zip Files Password
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If you want to crack zip file passwords use fcrackzip.fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results.
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Debian GNU/Hurd K16 Snapshot Released
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Hurd Philip Charles has released the K16 snapshot of the Debian GNU/Hurd system. The K16 CD series includes a mini-ISO, 4 full CD images, and 2 DVD images. For the first time, a QEMU image based on the mini-ISO is provided as well.
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Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download
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"Please note: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta..." -- ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b5/linux-i686/
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GNU FreeFont: new release
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"I'm pleased to announce another release of GNU FreeFont, a free outline font aiming to support as much of Unicode as possible. [...] Please have a look, and drop me a line! "
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Linux gains new architecture support
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Dozens of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and other consumer appliances are about to gain mainline kernel and Debian GNU/Linux support. The 2.6.25 kernel, currently in the final stages of testing, will support Marvell's Feroceon micro-architecture and "Orion" SoCs, with Debian support close behind, sources say.
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Emacs 22.2 released
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"Emacs version 22 has a wide variety of new features, including GTK+ toolkit support, enhanced mouse support, a new keyboard macro system, improved Unicode support, and drag-and-drop operation on X, plus many new modes and packages including a graphical user interface to GDB, Python mode, the mathematical tool Calc, and the remote file editing system Tramp..."
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Neat features in Eclipse editor that Richard Stallman wants to implement in Emacs
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RMS: «I just got a demo of the Eclipse editor and saw these features which we should have in Emacs...»
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Asus Eee PC (Part Two): Setting up the full KDE GNU/Linux Experience
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In Part One of my Eee PC series I looked at the hardware specifications of this miniature marvel. In such a small space Asus have managed to cram in a lot and at a price that is so low that it ought be illegal. However, it is a cliche to recall that hardware without software is junk—unless you have a fetish for silicon. In this post I will look at the software on the Eee PC.
Read more »Bazaar 1.3 released
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"I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.3 of the Bazaar version control system. - http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download - Since 1.2, we've improved the speed of several important operations, including log, annotate, and other operations on revision history. Several bugs have been fixed and new options and features have been added, including an option to hardlink files between working trees.
Read more »The #1 Problem in OSS Usability and What I’m Going to Do About It
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I was doing some research on a paper I am writing about open source usability practices when it hit me: Lack of user research is the #1 problem in open source usability
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Sweet, sweet smell of comments in code?
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Arguments rage over the importance of adding comments to your code versus the importance of writing clear code that speaks for itself, thereby potentially eliminating the need for comments.
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