Using the -finstrument-functions option in GNU GCC to trace and profile code.

In past articles we have delivered plenty of file-system benchmarks from testing out EXT4 to Btrfs to NILFS2. One area though where we have not published any file-system benchmarks is for USB flash drives.

When a bug is filed in a free software project’s bug tracker, a social exchange takes place. Based on the belief that this exchange is of mutual benefit, the people involved form certain expectations of each other.

"Hi, We just edited our hint files, so that all packages now need human review in order to go to testing. Hmm, that sounds too cryptic. Let's try again: Lenny is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!! Thanks are due to everyone who has helped get us to this point [...] Now to explain what, exactly, we mean by 'freeze'..."

"The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Installer. This is the first release since Etch and the whole team has been hard at work during the past 11 months to make this release full of new features and bugfixes. We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it..."

"...Firefox 3 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the tenth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso..."

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b2/linux-i686/

Fuzz testing, which uses random input to test software for bugs, has been the biggest thing to happen in IT security in quite awhile. Now you can quickly and easily direct your own fuzz testing ops, thanks to a cool little program called zzuf.