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January - March, 2008 Status Reports
Categories: BSD
New committer: Gábor Páli (Hungarian doc/www)
Categories: BSD
Funded Summer of Code Projects Announced
Categories: BSD
Student deadline extended for Summer of Code
Categories: BSD
Participating in Google Summer of Code
Categories: BSD
New committer: Felippe M. Motta (ports)
Categories: BSD
New committer: Philippe Audeoud (ports)
Categories: BSD
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Available
Categories: BSD
Removing the Big Kernel Lock
Corrado writes "There is a big discussion going on over removing a bit of non-preemptable code from the Linux kernel. 'As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptable BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptable code again. "This commit returned the BKL code to the 2.6.7 state of affairs in essence," began Ingo Molnar. He noted that this had a very negative effect on the real time kernel efforts, adding that Linux creator Linus Torvalds indicated the only acceptable way forward was to completely remove the BKL.'"
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Categories: Linux
It's time to retire "ready for the desktop"
Quite a few reviews of new Linux releases these days try to determine if a distribution is "ready for the desktop." I myself have probably been guilty of using that phrase, but I think it's time we officially retire this criterion.
Categories: Linux
Ask Linux.com: detecting drives, scripting bash, and distributing documents
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This week in our semi-fortnightly stroll through the Linux.com forums: working with external hard drives, configuring all those extra mouse buttons, bash scripting help, and advice on finding software for the hearing impaired.
Categories: Linux
KDE at LinuxTag 2008
KDE is attending this year's LinuxTag in Berlin with a wide selection of talks. Starting with Aaron Seigo's lecture about KDE in the mobile world and a KDE-related series of presentations on Friday. There are also some stalls where you can meet people from the KDE community.
Exhibition:
- KDE: hall 7.2a, stand 125
- Amarok and Kubuntu: hall 7.2b, stand 124
- openSUSE: hall 7.2b, stand 210
- Trolltech hall 7.2b, stand 207
Talks:
- Wednesday
- KDE 4: Desktop interfaces in a mobile Web 2.0 world 13:30 - 15:00 Aaron Seigo (English)
- Thursday
- Kontact: Best for both worlds 15:00 - 16:00 Till Adam (German)
- Friday
- Beautiful Technology - What's new in KDE4? 10:00 - 11:00 Sebastian Kugler (English)
- Nepomuk - Der Semantische Desktop mit KDE 4 11:00 - 12:00 Sebastian Trueg (German)
- Personal Information Management with Akonadi 12:00 - 13:00 Till Adam (English)
- It's not just testing - Usability in KDE 12:00 - 13:00 Ellen Reitmayr (German)
- KOffice 2 - der Weg aus dem Schattendasein 16:00 - 17:00 Franz Keferböck (German)
- KDE Multimedia 17:00 - 18:00 Lydia Pintscher, Harald Sitter (German)
- Saturday
- Amarok: Next Generation Audio Player 15:00 - 16:00 Sven Krohlas, Lydia Pintscher (German) and
- KDE 4.0 on openSUSE 15:00 - 16:00 Stephan Binner, Will Stephenson (German)
Distribution Release: Ubuntu Muslim Edition 8.04
Ubuntu Muslim Edition (UbuntuME) 8.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring Islamic software, a Quran study tool and a web content filtering utility, has been released: "The Ubuntu Muslim Edition team is proud to announce the final version of UbuntuME 8.04. It includes an installable live desktop CD, a second....
Development Release: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
Stephan Kulow has announced the availability of the third beta release of openSUSE 11.0: "The openSUSE team is proud to announce the third beta release of openSUSE 11.0. Over 700 bugs were fixed since beta 2, more new artwork was added and several new package versions were includes.....
Distribution Release: rPath Linux 2.0
Michael K. Johnson has announced the release of rPath Linux 2.0, a highly customisable appliance operating system featuring the Conary package management utility: "rPath is pleased to announce that rPath Linux 2 is now available and recommended for general use as an appliance platform. What's new? rPath Linux....
Distribution Release: MEPIS antiX 7.2
MEPIS has announced the release of MEPIS antiX 7.2, a lightweight, community variant of MEPIS Linux designed for older computers: "MEPIS has announced the release of antiX 7.2, 'Vetëvendosje.' Built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, along with selected additions from....
Development Release: Sabayon Linux 3.5 Beta 3
Fabio Erculiani has announced the third beta release of Sabayon Linux 3.5: "Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 3.5 Loop 3 (beta release). Distribution features and changes since beta 2: boot time takes from 15 to 25 seconds less, thanks to Gentoo OpenRC and Baselayout-2, combined with our boot optimizations; improved....
Distribution Release: Ark Linux 2008.1
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has announced the release of Ark Linux 2008.1, an easy-to-use desktop Linux distribution with KDE and a selection of highly up-to-date applications: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2008.1, a new version of its easy-to-use, easy-to-learn operating system.....
