ext4 has sparked good controversy on the LKML. Aside from the recent delayed alloc and fsync issues, the whole FS stack is getting some much needed attention. Indeed, Linux file systems are starting to feel like first class citizens again with ext4 and Btrfs (merged in 2.6.29 for …
more ...The Gentoo Qt maintainers have been doing a fantastic job of getting cutting edge Qt software into shape with the qting-edge overlay. I've been running Qt 4.5 since beta1 and am pleased with the direction it is going. Recently the devs bumped the Arora ebuild to version 0.5 …
more ...I have to hand it to the guys at The H Open (formally Heise Online Open Source Edition). They have excellent coverage of the latest happenings in FOSS software. They also have great coverage of software releases and break it down to the important new bits. Finally, it is not …
more ...KDE 4.2 is out officially. The ebuilds for Gentoo have been ready for a while. This is a truly fantastic release. If you've ever made an opinion about KDE in the past, I encourage you to give it another go.
My beta1 review back in December sums up most …
more ...QT Software, under the graces of Nokia, has released the superb QT cross-platform toolkit under the LGPL.
This. is. HUGE.
For the libre software purist, this still benefits you, if indirectly. Companies that make changes to the toolkit must still submit patches. More influential, GPL incompatible software may now readily …
more ...I've always been a fan of Palm hardware, and even had a soft spot for PalmOS until it was left to rot for so long.
Indeed, my Palm 800w is a fine piece of hardware even though it was quickly eclipsed by the Treo Pro, but Windows Mobile has been …
more ...I dream of a day where virtualization is pervasive.
Instead of thinking about services in terms of servers, CPUs or directly mapped resources, I should be able to to add virtual machines in terms of guaranteed throughput rate over a whole grid. Scaling out should be as easy as adding …
more ...RHEL 5 includes the now ancient Xen 3.0 hypervisior. A lot has been improved since then, especially in the current 3.3 release. Additionally, RedHat now owns the company behind KVM, so it is unlikely they will spend much time backporting Xen stuff for RHEL 5.3 or the …
more ...I just went through hell in a handbasket trying to get 802.3ad Link Aggregation set up on a Centos 5.2 Xen box. Setting up link aggregation itself isn't that bad - http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces for a simple guide (after your managed switch is configd) - but what …
more ...Here's how you upgrade to ext4. The process is pretty easy, but requires an fsck which means unmounting or rebooting if the file system is in use.
Make sure you are using at least e2fstools 1.41.3 and kernel 2.6.28 (or a vendor kernel with latest ext4 …
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