August 1, 2010
00:56
There are still a few weeks left before the deadline that demands Oracle appoint a community liaison for their OpenSolaris operating system that is capable of communicating their future intentions to the OpenSolaris community (like where the hell is OpenSolaris 2010.1H) or else the OpenSolaris Governing Board will return control of the community back to Oracle. However, some OpenSolaris community developers have already had enough: they've begun work on a new project...
04:20
While there's very few people that NVIDIA's dead open-source driver update helps out, NVIDIA has released two new binary Linux driver updates. The NVIDIA 256.44 pre-release driver adds in support for some new GeForce and Quadro GPUs along with introduces some "Fermi" (GeForce GTX 400 series) stability fixes while the NVIDIA 256.38.02 Linux driver introduces initial OpenGL 4.1 support...
Comment by DDevine
on 1 Aug 10 at 10:09 EST
Yay! but I don't really have anything that would make too much use of them.
13:30
I didn't realise Rasterman (of #enlightenment) was an Aussie.
13:34
!lo I think I might write up (possibly record?) a review for the #SmartQ v7. Covering SmartDevices' Ubuntu and Andorid 2.1, forget WinCE.
21:30
James Morris has outlined a preview of the security subsystem changes he is currently carrying in his security-testing-next branch of the Linux kernel that he plans to have Linus Torvalds pull into the next kernel development cycle for Linux 2.6.36. The big change in the kernel security world is that AppArmor is being planned for integration into the Linux 2.6.36 kernel...
Comment by DDevine
on 2 Aug 10 at 17:04 EST
AppArmor vs SELinux is a difficult decision but I think the difference is basically between desktop/workstation use vs server use. I don't think SELinux is appropriate for the desktop - at least not until it gets better management tools and tutorials.
August 2, 2010
14:00
17:41
Everything becoming online, outsourced, virtualised and cloudified - is the physical conference model going out of fashion? #lca2011
17:47
@mencucu RHEL6 is a hybrid of 12 and 13 and you certainly cannot expect longer support for 12. You may be interested in #CentOS 6.
17:55
RT @linuxconfau We're thrilled with Accommodation options organised for #lca2011. Location, location location! CFP is open for 6 more da ...
August 3, 2010
11:07
#Lennart Poettering has contributed more to #GNOME than the entirety of #Canonical. LOL!
15:10
@evilestmark try finding a project that you are interested in and start off with simple stuff in the bug tracker.
20:00
As I alluded to recently, the second round of Windows 7 vs. Linux benchmarks -- with the first round consisting of Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04 and Mac OS X vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu benchmarks -- are currently being done atop a Lenovo ThinkPad W510 notebook that is quite popular with business professionals. With the high-end ThinkPad W510 boasting a dual quad-core Intel Core i7 CPU with Hyper-Threading plus a NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M graphics processor, we began this second round of cross-platform benchmarks by running a set of workstation tests. In this article we are mainly looking at the workstation graphics (via SPECViewPerf) performance along with some CPU/disk tests.
August 4, 2010
03:23
06:43
Last week we reported on the Illumos project that may be a fork of OpenSolaris coming out of the OpenSolaris community being shafted by Oracle. Not many details were known at that time, but now the Nexenta-sponsored Illumos project has formally introduced itself...
09:14
NoMachine announced details about an upcoming version 4.0 of its X Windows-based, Linux-compatible NX Remote Access software. Said to be & in its final stages,& NX 4.0 expands beyond Linux to offer native remote access to Windows and Mac desktops, and it also beefs up multimedia support and integrates its NX Web Player app to offer NX sessions on any device, including smartphones....
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23:21
One of the problems commonly talked about in our forums and elsewhere is the poor responsiveness of the Linux desktop when dealing with significant disk activity on systems where there is insufficient RAM or the disks are slow. The GUI basically drops to its knees when there is too much disk activity, which is far from being ideal. For many the problem has just been present for a year or two, but those experiencing these horrible responsiveness problems where it may take many seconds for a menu to appear when clicking on it or a half-minute to do a VT switch, there soon may be a fix...
August 5, 2010
16:13
Playing with #Enlightenment on my #SmartQ v7 - I hope I can find some time to make an image so everybody can easily use it.
20:55
While we benchmark the latest Linux kernel code on a daily basis at kernel-tracker.phoromatic.com using our automated testing platform built on the Phoronix Test Suite, now that the Linux 2.6.35 kernel was released, we have run a formalized set of kernel benchmarks on a ThinkPad W510 notebook with an Intel Core i7 CPU to see how the Linux 64-bit kernel is running with this high-end notebook under the Linux 2.6.32, 2.6.33, 2.6.34, and 2.6.35 releases.
August 6, 2010
10:09
For those trying to find a new Linux game that offers good graphics while not being a first person shooter with little to no plot -- as is the case for a majority of the commercial and open-source games available for Linux -- the Amnesia: The Dark Descent game is expected to be released next month. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a graphic adventure horror game that will have a Linux-native client and has been in development by Frictional Games, the same studio that developed the Penumbra series...
Comment by DDevine
on 6 Aug 10 at 10:19 EST
I think I heard a review on this game a year or so ago - I heard it was bloody scary.
10:22
As was reported on Phoronix yesterday, the Linux desktop responsiveness problem may be fixed. This is the issue that has affected many Linux desktop users for numerous months where when dealing with large file transfers or other disk operations, the desktop interface (regardless of whether its GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc) would become unresponsive and it could be a good number of seconds before a simple action like clicking a menu item would be processed...
14:00
August 7, 2010
08:12
For those too impatient to wait for next month for a new native Linux game release when Amnesia: The Dark Descent is set to premiere, there is another game with a native Linux client that was released today: And Yet It Moves...
August 8, 2010
17:13
17:55
Just bought "Learning to Program with Haiku" from #Lulu. I hope he is encouraged to write more !haiku books. Also bought an extra C book.
August 9, 2010
07:55
Comment by DDevine
on 9 Aug 10 at 11:19 EST
This port is actually quite clever. The hacker used Adobe Flash for Android 2.2 and wrote a compatibility layer for the Flash shared library.
08:52
Lightspark, one of the newest free software projects designed to provide an open-source implementation of Adobe's Flash/SWF specification, has been progressing at a rather expedited pace. Lightspark continues to pickup new features with each new release, which as of late have been occurring frequently. Less than a month ago, Lightspark 0.4.2 was released and version 0.4.3 is already approaching with the first release candidate having been released this weekend...
Comment by DDevine
on 9 Aug 10 at 11:22 EST
This is a great little project. Finally somebody in the Open Source world is bringing cool the cool open source bits together into an awesome Flash player project. Its not another fragmented piece in that it leverages Gnash and parts (LLVM Jit for example) maintained by other projects.
11:36
@methoddan Try #Tooheys Extra Dry (or New if you can find TEDs). We don't tolerate that #Fosters shit here in Australia.!beer
11:43
Brisbane, Australia - linux.conf.au announces the extension of its Call for Papers for lca2011 conference by one week.
Due to a large number of requests, the deadline for the lca2011 call for papers has been extended for an extra week. It will now close on Saturday the 14th August 2010. Unfortunately, no further extensions can be granted after this date.
<!--break-->The organising committee are pleased with both the quantity and quality of proposals that have been submitted to date and are still accepting proposals for;
- Papers
- Tutorials
- Posters
- Miniconfs
12:07
@jakeroberts mount the mp3 player as a Mass Storage Device (like a USB stick) and then run "fsck.vfat /dev/..."
12:38
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13:02
Towards the end of last month we reported on GEM-free UMS support for the Intel driver that was worked on by Intel's Chris Wilson to hopefully address the stability issues and other problems that have challenged owners of old Intel i8xx hardware running the newer Intel driver stack, which is presently limited to kernel mode-setting support with GEM (the Graphics Execution Manager) memory management. However, it seems the work invested into adding back user-space mode-setting support to the Intel driver without the kernel memory management still doesn't resolve the i8xx issues at hand...
13:50
Linux Conference Australia is interested in !haiku OS papers. CFP has been extended. Check out http://ur1.ca/11cb7 - assistance available.
14:00
16:00
With the benchmarks recently looking at the performance of ZFS on FreeBSD versus EXT4/Btrfs on Linux having generated much interest and a very long discussion, this morning we are back with more benchmarks when running ZFS on FreeBSD/PC-BSD 8.1 and Btrfs and EXT4 on an Ubuntu Linux 10.10 snapshot with the most recent kernel, but this time the disk benchmarking is being done atop a high-performance solid-state drive courtesy of OCZ Technology and the CPU is an Intel Core i7. The drive being tested across these three leading file-systems is the OCZ Vertex 2 that promises maximum reads up to 285MB/s, maximum writes up to 275MB/s, and sustained writes up to 250MB/s.
17:36
@fabsh LCA decided not to stream everything because then businesses wouldn't send employees. Pro tickets subsidise student/hobbyist.
17:44
17:48
19:11
@fabsh I agree conferences are all about the networking for companies. People are moving away from physical meetings - LUGs shrinking.
August 10, 2010
06:56
Just uploaded to the Ubuntu Lucid repository for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and we imagine it will appear shortly in Maverick too for Ubuntu 10.10) is a new package called canonical-census, which marks its initial release. Curious about what this package provides, we did some digging and found it's for tracking Ubuntu installations by sending an "I am alive" ping to Canonical on a daily basis...
Comment by DDevine
on 10 Aug 10 at 11:26 EST
I wonder if Canonical is *really* prepared to dig into this can of worms.
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