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Developer Linux News for Oct 28, 2008
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A Closer Look At Red Hat's Plymouth (Oct 28, 2008, 23:32)
Phoronix: "Solar is one of the splash plug-ins
available with Plymouth, which fits well with Fedora 10 considering
the desktop theme. Solar is also a visually advanced plug-in. Below
is the video that shows a number of planets and other graphics
rotating around what would be the Sun."
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OpenMoko's OM2008.9 for the Neo FreeRunner (Oct 28, 2008, 21:02)
Linux Journal: "The OpenMoko project recently
released a much-needed update to the official software stack of the
Neo FreeRunner. I've had a FreeRunner for a few months and during
that time I have used it to run everything from Debian to Qtopia
(now known as QT Extended), so when OpenMoko announced the OM2008.9
update I eagerly upgraded to see what it had to offer."
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Embedded Linux - Linux Operating System for Microcontrollers (Oct 28, 2008, 15:32)
Your Electronics Open Source: "Embedded Linux
refers mostly to Linux Kernel which is the basic of every operating
system. For embedded applications it is customized for every
microprocessor. ARM is one of the processor that is very used with
Linux as an application processor system. Some big pluses for it
are the support for multiprocessor systems and concurrently execute
applications."
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Fedora 10's Better Startup (Oct 28, 2008, 14:32)
Fedora Magazine: "For the longest time now,
GNU/Linux distributions have been criticised by desktop and laptop
users for starting up too slowly. More recently, within the Fedora
community particularly there have been increasing numbers of
complaints about the amount of "flicker" that happens as the system
switched from Grub to RHGB to GDM etc. Fedora 10 is going to change
all of that, however..."
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Torvalds: Real Quality Means Taking it Personally (Oct 28, 2008, 14:02)
LinuxDevices: "The Linux Foundation (LF) has
posted a ten-minute video interview with kernel coordinator Linus
Torvalds. Held during the Linux Foundation's recent Linux Kernel
Summit, the interview reveals the Linux founder speaking out on
issues ranging from kernel/userland interactions to why Linux has
so many interfaces."
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Get Your Local TV Listings From The Bash Command Line (Oct 28, 2008, 10:02)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's
Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script, we're finally starting to go
after online TV listings. If you've checked out all of our other
bash CLI scripts aimed at helping you to not have to open your web
browser, please skip the following paragraph. It's redundant, to
say the least"
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Lazy Linux: 11 Secrets for Lazy Cluster Admins (Oct 28, 2008, 04:32)
IBM Developerworks: "Administrators will tell
you that with scale-out clusters any change, no matter how small,
must be repeated up to hundreds of thousands of times; the laziest
of admins have mastered techniques of scale-out management so that
regardless of the number of nodes, the effort is the same. In this
article, the authors peer into the minds of the laziest Linux
admins on Earth and divulge their secrets."
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