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Developer Linux News for Feb 23, 2009
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Russian President Confirms Official Support for Wider Use of Open Source (Feb 23, 2009, 18:32)
Opendotdotdot: "Here's confirmation from the
top that Russia is pushing ahead with its plans for introducing
free software not just into its schools, but the entire domestic
market:"
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Coyote Linux Design Philosophies (Feb 23, 2009, 16:47)
Coyote Linux: "Many of you are going to
question some of the decisions made when I selected the tools,
platforms, and techniques for the development of Coyote Linux 4. I
am going to write up a post as a preemptive set of answers which I
will refer to when the questions, comments, flames, etc start
pouring in."
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VL-Hot: A Non-polling Alternative To HAL (Feb 23, 2009, 15:33)
O'Reilly Blogs: "This is accomplished by the
HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) daemon which continually polls the
hardware to determine if anything has been added or removed.
Generally this works very well and makes the Linux desktop
decidedly more user friendly than it was in the days before HAL. As
is usually the case this additional functionality and friendliness
comes with a cost."
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Aligning filesystems to an SSD's erase block size (Feb 23, 2009, 14:03)
Thoughts by Ted: "I recently purchased a new
toy, an Intel X25-M SSD, and when I was setting it up initially, I
decided I wanted to make sure the file system was aligned on an
erase block boundary. This is a generally considered to be a Very
Good Thing to do for most SSD's available today, although there's
some question about how important this really is for Intel SSD's --
more on that in a moment."
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ASUS developing Android-based netbook (Feb 23, 2009, 06:03)
Electronista: "The company's Eee PC division
lead, Samson Hu, informs Bloomberg that engineers have been tasked
with readying one of the mini notebooks for a tentative end-of-year
release window."
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