Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop installation review
March 29, 2008
I decided to install Ubuntu 8.04 beta, and try to imagine myself as a novice desktop user and how this may be the replacement desktop for my mother, or my wife or sister (note: all my brothers are geeks so I can’t include them) or a small business.
Ubuntu and the state of enterprise Linux
March 27, 2008
Ubuntu has evolved over the last years, and has become quite popular on the desktop. Ubuntu is also working on its position in the enterprise. I, however, am a bit apprehensive to adopt Ubuntu for the server, and have a tough time recommending my clients to use Ubuntu vs. Red Hat (CentOS) or SuSE. I currently prefer CentOS for the free distribution, and RHEL where required (like SAP implementations).
Linux Foundation Speaker Line-Up for 2nd Annual Collaboration Summit
March 13, 2008
Kernel Developers, IDC’s Head Linux Analyst and Companies Such as Dell, HP, IBM, MySQL, and Oracle Will Debate Growth Opportunities for the Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire - March 11, 2008) - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the speakers for its 2nd Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. Read more
Linux Bare metal has a new player, LinMin.
March 11, 2008
LinMin provides Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) for your Linux servers. The use of BMP greatly reduces the overhead a system administrator requires to deploy and manage existing servers. Read more
Linux 2.6 Filesystem Benchmarks (older)
March 10, 2008
A while back (August 2006) I decided to do some benchmarking on different filesystems, in part to validate my assumption that using JFS with Linux was a good idea. Now with more that 1 year in production, performance is great (as shown below), and the filesystem is stable. No issues. Onto the details… Read more
Linux e-mail, messaging and VoIP Communications suite
March 9, 2008
Software developer Unison has launched what it claims is the world’s first fully-unified communications suite based on Linux. http://www.unison.com is where you can find additional detail.
Announced at CeBIT, the suite (also simply called Unison) combines IP telephony, e-mail and instant messaging with diary, address book and presence capabilities, all in a single Linux server. It is available free as a public beta.
MythTV, New Release - 0.21
March 9, 2008
MythTV is a homebrew PVR project that has been under heavy development since April 2002, and is now quite useable and featureful. This new release has lots of new stuff. Notably: autodiscovery (less manual configuration of new frontends), storage groups (no need for LVM/etc), support for multiple recordings on one DVB/ATSC multiplex, a couple new plugins, some new deinterlacing/video display options, and many, many other things.
Xen virtualization notes
March 8, 2008
I have recently been working virtualizing Windows and Linux machines using Xen. A few things popped up along the way and a bit of research was done to make things work properly, these are some of the notes I used along the way.
- I am partial to using LVM based devices for creating my virtual machines. Think lvm snapshots for backups.
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