I’ve started using openSUSE Factory (next 12.3 due release is in March) which now ships with KDE 4.10 RC2 (4.9.97 more precisely).
I have to say it feels fast and smooth in almost all areas. The new bootsplash and desktop wallpapers are very cool and the overall desktop integration and decoration is very well integrated.
Kudos to both KDE and openSUSE communities. ;)
More info about the next openSUSE release: http://news.opensuse.org/2012/12/18/opensuse-12-3-milestone-2-released/
light reading for year’s end :)
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There is a great python script out there called PS Mem showing you exactly how much private + shared RAM one program is using. It’s awesome as quick overview and for debugging, instead of looking at top and counting all listed processes. This is how it looks like:
You can download it at github: PS Mem
Linux Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations
The Ultimate Reference
The reason MINIX 3 didn’t dominate the world has to do with one mistake I made about 1992. At that time I thought BSD was going to take over the world. It was a mature and stable system. I didn’t see any point in competing with it, so I focused MINIX on education. Four of the BSD guys had just formed a company to sell BSD commercially. They even had a nice phone number: 1-800-ITS-UNIX. That phone number did them and me in. AT&T sued them over the phone number and the lawsuit took 3 years to settle. That was precisely the period Linux was launched and BSD was frozen due to the lawsuit. By the time it was settled, Linux had taken off. My mistake was not to realize the lawsuit would take so long and cripple BSD. If AT&T had not brought suit (or better yet, bought BSDI), Linux would never have become popular at all and BSD would dominate the world.
Source: Distrowatch.
To change the default scheduler from cfq to deadline simply edit /etc/grub.conf and add elevator=deadline to the kernel that is being used:
$ nano -w /etc/grub.conf title CentOS (2.6.18-274.3.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ elevator=deadline initrd /initrd-2.6.18-274.3.1.el5.imgThis entry tells the 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5 kernel to use the Deadline scheduler. Make sure to reboot the system to activate the new scheduler.
Cool Fedora Packages Mock Up
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When I was first learning about UNIX, and learning to use Linux, the most immediately powerful tool that I found was the shell’s pipe operator, ‘|’. Using the commandline (because at that point, linux GUI’s were not so well developed, and the few distros that tried to allow strictly graphical…
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