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Mason J. Katz has announced the release of Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0, a CentOS-based distribution designed for building Linux clusters: "Rocks 5.0 is released for i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures. New Features: 1. Xen support. You can use the ....

ONLamp.com has an article on the new features and performance improvements in FreeBSD 7.0, which is due any day now. Various FreeBSD developers describe the underlying changes -- network performance, wireless drivers and security. In a future issue of LXF we'll have an interview with FreeBSD's Kris Kennaway!

Most guides and tutorials for Ubuntu newcomers can help you get commercial DVDs playing on your system, but only through a series of terminal commands that install new repositories or through the use of Automatix or other automated tools that can sometimes mess up your system's dependencies.

TotalTunes Control Swallows the Best iTunes Add-Ons (Mac OS X)
"Freeware application TotalTunes Control is an all-in-one iTunes controller and add-on that rolls track notifications, Last.fm...

Windows only: Freeware screencasting application Community Clips records screencasts of your Office software in action. Developed by Microsoft, Community Clips integrates with the quick access...

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. US senator: China wants hotels to filter Internet
The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged.
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2. Top 5 Tiny Distros
I was cleaning up my /home partition when I noticed I had several tiny distros hanging around waiting to be tested. So I thought this might be a good time to write an updated Mini-distro Roundup. Unlike last time, the five contestants are all less than 88 MB in download size.
More @ Tuxmachines

3. How to avoid getting hooked

Oracle has several options for startup.1.Standard startup> startup;This command actually takes Oracle through three distinct startup phases automatically which are...

Ext4 is the latest in a long line of Linux® file systems, and it's likely to be as important and popular as its predecessors. As a Linux system administrator, you should be aware of the advantages, disadvantages, and basic steps for migrating to ext4.

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Google has released an addition to their RSS aggregator, Google Reader. The addition, “Note in Reader”, acts like a bookmarking tool that is then transferred to your shared items in Google Reader. Unfortunately for Google, this has been done (with incredible success) by other companies already. Can Google compete?

“The Register” reports NASA is working with SGI on acquiring a massive SGI Altix ICE supercomputer to assist with jobs for future manned missions and other aeronautical research.

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Less than a week after the release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron", the Free Software Foundation has gone ahead and released version 2.0 (named DeltaH) of gNewSense. For those not familiar with gNewSense, this is one of the few distributions certified by the Free Software Foundation as being a truly free Linux distribution...Here are a few screenshots from this latest release.

New Relic is a new entrant into the nascent Ruby on Rails® application monitoring market, so far dominated by FiveRuns. The company has just taken $3.5 million in first-round venture financing from heavyweights Benchmark Capital. Rather impressively, New Relic has already been featured on TechCrunch, where writer Mark McGranaghan notes that New Relic’s founder, Lewis Cirne, previously ran a similar company in the Java space.

First problems

The Update manager of my eeeXubuntu Gutsy requested 900 mb to be free'd.

I have 1 gb swap for the hibernation, thats way I don't have enough space for the upgrade.

solution

Thats way I have removed previously installed applications:

sudo apt-get remove
claws-mail*
djview
xpaint
freemind
emacs
vlc

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

of cause I am going to install this all back
after the finishing upgrade from the Gutsy.

then from mozilla -> tools -> Clear private data

This way 1gb+ storage were free'd on the device
(I am storing all data on card, thats way /home/ doesn't contain a lot of the data).

It is proceeding with the install now.

However, next time I'll prefer
to configure the update manager to store it's files on the sd card.

Over the last couple of nights I have completely rewritten my personal wiki. The wiki previously used the PHP WikkaWiki wiki engine, it now uses a bunch of custom PHP scripts. The scripts are similar to those used by my blog software, Whird. I decided to perform the rewrite for numerous reasons, some of which I have listed below:

1. I was unhappy with how WikkaWiki was formatting the underlying HTML, specifically the way in which it would never use the paragraph tag, opting instead to insert break tags. While this probably sounds like a minor issue, it was really beginning to bug me.

2. I started this site [crunchbang.org] with the intention of coding all of the software/scripts myself. Therefore, and somewhat obviously, my use of WikkaWiki was always going to provide reason for my conscience to niggle me.

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In 1988, if you'd told my Star Trek-loving 12-year-old self that someday I'd get to meet Wil Wheaton—and that he'd know my name—my preteen head would have exploded. Twenty years later, I...