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Debian moving to time-based releases

http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 I have used Debian since several years now and have always been either on the ‘testing’ or the ‘sid’... →

Re-comparing file systems

The previous attempt at comparing file systems based on the ability to allocate large files and zero them met with... →

The fallocate() Story Continues

Making apps use the fallocate() syscall instead of writing zeros to a file is the preferred way to init a... →

Comparison of File Systems And Speeding Up Applications

Update: I’ve done a newer article on this subject at http://log.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html that removes some of the deficiencies in the tests... →

Startups in 14 sentences

Paul Graham has an article on the top 13 things to keep in mind for entrepreneurs. I have one to... →

Making Suspend Safer for File Systems

I saw these File System Freezing patches that got merged into Linus’ tree yesterday and instantly thought that these patches... →

KVM: Disabled by BIOS

I spent some time fixing this on a Dell Optiplex 755. I thought it was a BIOS update that was... →

Laptops: The New Desktops

As laptop sales are outpacing desktop sales and laptops becoming more and more capable, it’s no wonder that laptops are... →

SPICE demo

Though people by now have a fairly good idea of what Qumranet does and what the product is about, there’s... →

Mixed Bag

Wildlife: Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s DNA Revived in Mice That’s just wonderful if we can save tigers Tech: Getting started with... →