Posts Tagged ‘Distro’
Friday, January 15th, 2010
What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
via LM_Sensors Gets A New Configuration Utility.
Tags: applet, Distro, gnome, Hardware, kde, lm-sensors, sensors
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
As a linux distro gets updated with a new version, it is always a good idea to do a fresh install than to do an upgrade [which may cause some unforeseen problems].
But with the frequent updates of newer versions of distros such as Ubuntu [every 6 months], it gets a bit tiring to re-install from scratch and do “apt-get” commands for all the packages required for customization and personalization of the OS. To make matters worse, it is hard to remember each and every package that was installed previously.
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Tags: apt-get, Distro, dkms, fresh, new, reinstall, version
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Foxconn’s planning to launch a netbook that is both XP and linux capable.
According to Liliputing, the linux will be a customized distribution called FoxOS
Read the full article here at liliputing.com
Tags: Distro, foxconn, liliputing, netbook, OS, xp
Posted in Distro, Hardware, Netbook | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Moblin has recently announced its version 2.1 of the project for download.
At SGLNX, armed with a first generation ITX Intel Atom 230 mainboard and a MSI Wind U100-Plus N280 netbook, the live USB image was tested on the 2 hardwares and an attempt to do a full install was also done on another USB stick.
This second USB stick was used to boot this “natively installed Moblin” to test the portability of the Moblin operating system across different hardwares.
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Tags: atom, Distro, intel, ITX, Kernel, live, Live CD, LiveCD, moblin, netbook, Nettop, opensource, operating system, usb
Posted in Distro, Hardware, ITX, Kernel, Moblin, Netbook, Nettop, Tips & Tricks | 1 Comment »
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Tags: Distro, karmic, koala, ubuntu
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Red Hat rolled out its Enterprise Linux 5.4 today.
Touting features such as
New enterprise KVM included alongside XEN virtualization technologies,
Clustering updates,
Support for XFS filesystem,
Updated userspace tools for EXT4 filesystem,
etc
Full release notes here
Tags: 5.4, Distro, ext4, filesystem, kvm, redhat, rhel, updates, virtualization, xen
Posted in Distro, Kernel, virtualization | No Comments »
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
The kernel is the core of the linux operating system.
Most linux distros come with prebuilt kernel that aims to support as much hardware as possible and kernels are constantly evolving and upgraded with new inclusions to support for latest hardware.
The updated linux kernel sources are kept and maintained by www.kernel.org.
Though most distros include a prebuilt kernel to support most desktops, laptops and servers, there are ways whereby the kernel can be optimized by tuning it only to support the hardware that the linux OS will be installed in. This will increase performance and boot time of the system.
To learn more about configuring and building the kernel, there is a very good book about linux kernels and it is published by O’Reilly. The title of the book is “Linux Kernel in a Nutshell” by author Greg Kroah-Hartman. And in line with the idea of opensource and GPL, the author has made his book to be free for downloading online and has declared it under the Creative Commons license such that anyone can download and redistribute it. For those whom still prefer to hold a physical book in their hands, they can still purchase it from their local bookstores.
To configure and build kernels more easily, SGLNX recommends Kernelcheck, which is an automated script with an easy user interface. “Linux in a Nutshell” can be used to compliment Kernelcheck when configuring and understanding the kernel parameters and options.
Wikipedia’s entry on Kernel(Computing)
Ubuntuforums Kernelcheck HOWTO thread
Kernelcheck’s blog
Download the “Linux in a Nutshell” ebook here
Tags: book, build, configure, creative commons, Distro, free, GPL, kcheck, Kernel, kernel.org, kernelcheck, opensource
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Signs of linux getting popular and getting endorsements from celebrities?
Tapping on opensource to increase her fan base?
DesktopLinux review of Hannah Montana Linux distro
OSNews : Hannah Montana… Linux ?
LinuxToday : Hannah Montana Linux X86 Basic Edition
The distro is aptly named the Hannah Montana Linux X86 Basic Edition..
What were they planning down the product roadmap?
Hannah Montana AMD64 Server Edition
Hannah Montana X86 Education Edition
Hannah Montana UltraSPARC T1 Edition
FYI, Distrowatch.com did not list this Hannah Montana linux distro in its database.
Sing a Miley Cyrus song while you download the distro here.
Tags: celebrity, Distro, distrowatch, endorsements, funny, Leisure
Posted in Distro, Leisure | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 14th, 2009
It’s been a few months since the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 3. Announced by Canonical’s Steve Langasek, the latest alpha release contains package updates and the it is based on Linux 2.6.31-rc5 kernel. Some notable features this current Karmic Koala alpha release:
1) Ubuntu One integration
2) Gnome 2.2.74
3) IM client Pidgin is out, and replaced by Empathy
4) Intel UXA acceleration method instead of EXA
5) GCC 4.4 instead of GCC4.3 as compiler
6) GRUB2 as default boot loader
Full list of Alpha 4 release features/changelog here
One of Karmic Koala’s goal is to achieve a boot time of less than 10 seconds, if so, then it is a serious contender in comparison to the upcoming Windows 7, which aims to boot in less than 15 seconds.
Try it today. Download it here!
Source : Phoronix
Tags: 9.10, Bootspeed, canonical, Distro, fast boot, fastboot, Kernel, ubuntu, windows
Posted in Bootspeed, Distro, Kernel | 1 Comment »
