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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Google today announced Chrome OS, a Linux based operating system that will boot in seconds and feature the web as its primary application platform (presumably its only platform).
This goes further to Google’s plan to ultimately eliminate the power and flexibility of the desktop computer. As application software is delivered from the web, the end-user’s experience [...]
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
brad-x posted a photo:

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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum. It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists.
You can register and start using [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
From the Linux list undoubtedly more are using CentOS, but the remarkable fact is that this known 1% CentOS is the same amount as the 5 Windows supercomputers.
by Dag Wieers
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Fedora 10 Cambridge is set to be released on November 25th with ton’s of new improvements and features. If you are just as impatient and would like to upgrade to the preview release, without downloading the ISO files, simply update the release files and go through your standard update procedure.
[root@infamous ~]# rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-9.93-1.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Preview/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-9.92-4.noarch.rpm
You [...]
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Ivan Pepelnjak of IOS Hints posted an excellent article on installing and running Quagga on Fedora Core over at CT3 wiki. Installing and maintaining Quagga on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS is even easier since the package manager automatically generates users, init scripts, and provides an easy upgrade path for the future.
To install Quagga [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
While configuring a new Gentoo Linux workstation I came across -march=native CFLAGS. Glancing over at GCC documentation, as of version 4.3.2 GCC is capable of automatically detecting what CPU you are using and setting appropriate optimization options.
32bit Users
CHOST=”i686-pc-linux-gnu”
CFLAGS=”-march=native -O2 -pipe”
CXXFLAGS=”${CFLAGS}”
64bit Users
CHOST=”x86_64-pc-linux-gnu”
CFLAGS=”-march=native -O2 -pipe”
CXXFLAGS=”${CFLAGS}”
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
A visual how to guide to creating basic RAID1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. We will be creating 1 gigabyte swap partition and using the remaining space for /.
Boot up Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS installation media. Once you have reached the disk utility select Remove all partitions on selected drives and [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
While browsing around Knol I came across Computer Theology.
Computer Theology is the branch of Computer Science and Theology concerned with the study of the role of religion in computer networks.
I just checked the calendar, it is not April 1st.
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