<a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/149081">Link
Quite good details on the new improvements.. Currently I am installing empathy which looks quite interesting. Screenshot for empathy available <a href="http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Empathy-Screenshot-27288.html">here.
Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora is a popular <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distribution funded by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat, the most profitable Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5" title="Company" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company">corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at <a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com.
Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into <a href="http://www.redhat.com/rhel/">Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial Linux version used by governments and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004e02d" title="Business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business">businesses around the world. You might compare the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora to <a href="http://www.novell.com/linux/">Novell and <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">openSUSE.
Continue readingA nice aritcle on reducing the memory usage of firefox on <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux.
There are some things in life everyone is looking for and no one ever finds and there are other things that people keep finding and re-finding and inventing and re-inventing. Reducing memory usage for <a class="zem_slink" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox and speeding it up is one such thing. So, here is another story to reduce the memory usage of firefox.
Continue readingWith the ever increasing cost of the Hardware, the amount of physical RAM available on the system is increasing day by day. For example, couple of years back, I had a system which was very high end Desktop with 256MB RAM and today I have a 2GB RAM Desktop. So, whats the point.
The Linux systems (right word should be kernel) are desiged to use both RAM and swap partition. Swap partition is a partition on Hard disk and is used mostly like RAM. Problem is that HDD access is always slower than RAM access and hence inherently, the system will work little slower even if you have enough RAM not to use swap. The term ”swappiness” is used to determine how the kernel should try to seam-balance between the use of RAM and swap. By default, most of the distro’s have a swappiness of 60. A higher value of swappiness means that the RAM will be swapped out faster.
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<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2010_fiveway&num=1" target="_blank">A five way linux comparison.
A very good comparison of the most common and famous distributions of <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000dafbd5" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux. Very comprehensive and detailed. Love this guy.<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5585048/spotify-streaming-music-player-comes-to-linux">Spotify Streaming Music Player Comes to Linux [Downloads] (lifehacker.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://sathyasays.com/2010/07/13/spotify-for-linux/">Spotify for Linux (sathyasays.com) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www.zemanta.com/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/zemified_c16.gif" alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog">
Earlier I had talked about this blog client, did I. If not then there is a nice blogging clinet called BloGTK, which can be used directly to post into the blog.
So today I reinstalled it and I was completely at loss with the client being unable to start with the error below:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py:407: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
self.publishCheck.set_active(gtk.TRUE)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py”, line 1244, in module
blogtk = BloGTK()
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py”, line 138, in __init__
self.grabConfig()
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py”, line 426, in grabConfig
self.rpcServer = proxy.get_xmlrpc_server(self.url)
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/proxy.py”, line 66, in get_xmlrpc_server
return server(url)
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1414, in __init__
raise IOError, ”unsupported XML-RPC protocol”
IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol
Here’s something that I had been planning to do for sometime now. I have my blog on wordpress and have Statpress plugin installed. The plugin does give me a good idea of the visits to my site. Now, I have to keep logging in every now and then to check the stats. Also since I did not want to spend some more amount 🙂 so I do not have the shell access to the server, too bad 🙁
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