Technology, Software, Linux and System Administration
The ubuntu developers just announced the first alpha release of the next Ubuntu version – 8.04 (codenamed “Hardy Heron”). major changes include:
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The latest ubuntu, codenamed “Gutsy Gibbon”, was released today. It has some very interesting features Release notes and is definitely the best one so far.
After skipping the one version and not having my vmware image updated for ubuntu 7.04 server, i am at least releasing the new version early. I didn’t dedicated much time to testing, so feel free to contact me for bug reports or any questions.
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Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.
After using it, the first thing i did was to uninstall my firefox news feed plugins, as i won’t ever use them again (at least not on linux)
Some of the cool features i like, among others:
Main interface
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Linux Kernel 2.6.21 has just been announced by Linus Torvalds.
2.6.21 improves the virtualization features merged in 2.6.20 with VMI (http://lwn.net/Articles/175706), a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware (and maybe -probably not- Xen) software.
KVM does get initial paravirtualization along with live migration and host suspend/resume support (http://lwn.net/Articles/223839).
2.6.21 also gets a tickless idle loop mechanism called “Dynticks” (http://lwn.net/Articles/223185), a feature built in top of “clockevents” which unifies the timer handling and brings true high-resolution timers.
Other features are: bigger kernel command-line, optional ZONE_DMA; support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU, for a Cell-based “celleb” architecture from Toshiba, better PS3 support: support for NFS IPv6, IPv4 <-> IPv6 IPSEC tunneling support, UFS2 write support, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encription for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, many new drivers and many other small improvements.
Envy is an application for Ubuntu Linux written in Python and PyGTK which will:
Interested? Visit Alberto Milone’s blog (the author) for the latest news about envy, or head on to the project’s page to grab it. (packages available for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 and Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10)
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Nero Linux 3 features:
Ingo Molnar released a new patchset titled the “Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler”.
He explained, “this project is a complete rewrite of the Linux task scheduler. My goal is to address various feature requests and to fix deficiencies in the vanilla scheduler that were suggested/found in the past few years, both for desktop scheduling and for server scheduling workloads.”
The patchset introduces Scheduling Classes, “an extensible hierarchy of scheduler modules. These modules encapsulate scheduling policy details and are handled by the scheduler core without the core code assuming about them too much.” It also includes sched_fair.c with an implementation of the CFS desktop scheduler, “a replacement for the vanilla scheduler’s SCHED_OTHER interactivity code,” about which Ingo noted, “I’d like to give credit to Con Kolivas for the general approach here: he has proven via RSDL/SD that ‘fair scheduling’ is possible and that it results in better desktop scheduling. Kudos Con!”
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Dear AMD, in light of you losing $600M for Q4, I am still left wondering how you can ignore quality Linux drivers.
I would have to agree on this. though linux users might be a very small minority, ATI (and now AMD) really could and should do a lot more to have decent graphic card drivers in linux.