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Re-comparing file systems

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

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...

Virtualisation: The KVM Way

I was invited at the Convergence 2008 conference on Virtualization at the IIT Bombay. I thought it would be fun...

Foss.in

Foss.in/2007 is over and I'm back home. The slide deck on my kvm talk is now available. This was the...

Making Wireless Work from the Command Line

There's an amazingly horrible piece of software that manages network connections on KDE: knetworkmanager. And with my recent upgrade to...

Make Your Computer / Laptop Use Less Power

Making your computer use less power is a necessary but difficult to implement issue... unless you know where to look...

Quote by Nat Friedman

I recently got to meet Nat Friedman of Gnome fame. Thanks Moshe for the opportunity. While Moshe and Nat did...

Kernel hang on install; LEDs blink

I was recently installing Kubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) on a new Intel Core 2 Duo System. The kernel kept panic'ing...

Quote: Greg Kroah-Hartman on Linux development model

"It is a web of trust. Linus trusts 10 to 15 people, I trust 10 to 15 people," Kroah-Hartman said....

Free Linux Driver Development

Greg Kroah-Hartman has sent an email to the LKML mentioning the Linux kernel community's offering to write drivers for any...