Linux By Knight

Saturday, July 31, 2010

LBK Post 040 Tiny Core Minimalist Linux Released

Tiny Core Linux

Team Tiny Core announced the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its small-footprint, in-memory Linux desktop distribution. Tiny Core Linux 3.0 RC1 advances to Linux 2.6.33.3, and offers improved compressed swap in RAM, a 64-bit version, enhanced virtualization, and the Ext4 file-system, says the project.

Link: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2725656572.html?kc=rss

Looks familiar Doesn't It?

Yes, I Know I Blogged About This Distro Earlier This Month (like around the 14th), but I'm thinking of using this Distro as my Virtualized Linux under Windows 7.

I'll Keep you Posted on How It Goes...

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In A Galaxy, Far Far Away.

Power PCs
Apple Mac Pro 8-Core 2.93 GHz reviewed

Biggie Picture:

Link: http://review.techworld.com/power-pcs/316324/apple-mac-pro-8-core-293ghz-review/

Leo and the Mac Guys talked about this behemouth on MacBreak Weekly 205, in a Dual 6-core setup. Leo said that would run about 5,000ドル and where Alex Lindsay said he wanted a 24 core setup.

Palladin.

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Posted by Wingman, aka BigBopper. at 6:53 AM No comments:

Labels: Apple Mac Pro 8 Core 2.93ghz, Tiny Core Linux

Friday, July 30, 2010

LBK Post 039 It's Time for Ballmer To Go

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/30/microsoft_should_do_open_source/

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The Graph: Windows vs Apple

Where The Graph Came From:

Link:

http://www.9to5mac.com/node/17260

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Labels: Ballmer Must Go

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

LBK Post 038 The Girl With The Kindle Tattoo

Another Winner for The
Amazon Kindle Reader

Stieg Larsson Becomes First Author

to Sell 1 Million KINDLE BOOKS on Amazon

The late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson has beaten Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson to become the first author to sell more than one million ebooks on Amazon.

"Larsson's books have captivated millions of readers around the world and ignited a voracious interest in the lives of its main characters Lisbeth Salander and Michael Blomqvist," said Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content. "It's been exciting to have been a part of introducing so many people to these great books."

The novelist's three books –

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,

The Girl Who Played with Fire and

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

– currently top Amazon's Kindle bestseller list,

and are also in the top 10 bestselling

Kindle books of all time, according to the retailer.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/28/stieg-larsson-1m-ebooks-amazon

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This IS my First Blog Post Using
the New 3 Engine Browser

Lunascape 6.

So Far, So Good.

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Posted by Wingman, aka BigBopper. at 9:31 AM No comments:

Labels: Stieg Larsson million books sold for Kindle, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

LBK Post 037 World’s Fastest VP8 Decoder: ffvp8

Announcing the world’s fastest

VP8 decoder: ffvp8

Diary Of An x264 Developer

Parkjoy

Sintel Graph

Link: http://durian.blender.org/download/

1080p ( 1920 x 1080 )

We tested on two 1080p clips: Parkjoy, a live-action 1080p clip, and the Sintel trailer, a CGI 1080p clip. Testing was done using “time ffmpeg -vcodec {libvpx or vp8} -i input -vsync 0 -an -f null -”. We all used the latest SVN FFmpeg at the time of this posting; the last revision optimizing the VP8 decoder was r24471.

Link: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=499

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Labels: VP8 decoder ffvp8

Saturday, July 24, 2010

LBK Post 036 Government Computers to Get Linux-Based OS

Russian Government
Computers to Get

Linux-Based Operating System

It's About Time.

Link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010年07月23日-027-35-NW-DP

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Meanwhile US Machines

are Dealing with This Stuff...

The Winsxs Folder Explained

Read Very Carefully.

Link: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/24/the-winsxs-folder-explained/

Bottom Line, DON'T Delete This Space Hogging FOLDER !!!

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Labels: Govmt to get Linux OS, WinSXS Folder Explained

Friday, July 23, 2010

LBK Post 035 Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35

Keeping Up with Kernel Development

2.6.35 (Part 3) - Network Support

From www.LinuxToday.org

"Since the fifth RC of Linux 2.6.35 early last week, the developers have only added minor corrections and improvements to the main development branch. It's likely that Torvalds will issue the sixth release candidate any day now, and the 2.6.35 kernel is likely to enter the final development stage.

"This edition of the "Coming in 2.6.35" mini series describes the advancements in network infrastructure and drivers. Part one described the changes in the graphics hardware area and part two dealt with storage aspects and file systems. Future articles in this series will discuss the USB, FireWire and V4L / DVB etc drivers as well as the architecture code and infrastructure."

Link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010年07月23日-003-35-NW-KN

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2.6.35 (Part 1) Graphics

Link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2010070900235NWKN

2.6.35 (Part 2) File Systems and Storage

Link: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2010071402535NWKN

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"Good Series to Keep abreast of if you care about Linux."

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