The Linux Heart Archive
This is the earlier Linux Heart: technical discoveries, short news items, personal opinions and the occasional detour. They belong to the story of this blog, even where the product, service or debate has long since moved on.
The original dates and addresses are preserved. Technical posts have English translations; some personal entries remain in their original language. A revisited guide keeps the original account alongside a separately dated follow-up. The archive is available for reading without advertising.
For practical walkthroughs, start with the selected engineering guides. For current product and marketing stories, return to the journal.
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- Kernel 2.6.23 will include a new task scheduler
According to messages on the Linux kernel mailing list (LKML), kernel 2.6.23, due before the end of this month, will include a completely new task…
- Google turns 10!
The domain Google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. The search giant’s computing systems handle around 50 million searches a day. Around 8 billion web…
- Apple sabotage: the iPod can no longer be used with Linux
Apple has said that users will no longer be able to use iPods with Linux. The approach is simple: it has changed the format of…
- AMD encourages the open-source community to develop ATI drivers
AMD says it will provide developers around the world with hardware specifications for ATI graphics cards, specifically the ATI Radeon HD 2000 and Radeon X1000…
- The future of Linux smartphones
Forecasts put Linux-based smartphones at 31% of the market by 2012. More details at www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21243.
- Linux is coming to Airbus A380 seatbacks
On October 26, 2007, Singapore Airlines will roll out its Airbus A380. The big surprise for passengers will be in the seatbacks: computers running Red…
- Skype for Linux reads a lot of files in /etc…
These include /etc/passwd, the Firefox profile, plugins, add-ons and so on. This was discovered using AppArmor, which is another good reason to use that application…
- Novell will no longer fight for its Unix rights
Novell representative Bruce Lowry says the company will no longer fight for rights to the Unix brand because it is “no longer working in that…
- The world’s largest single-kernel Linux system
NASA has chosen an SGI Altix supercomputer for its new computing system. It will contain 2,048 processors and 4TB of RAM. And Linux will control…
- HP reaches security level EAL4+
Hewlett-Packard has been recognised by the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology for its servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux…
- Kernel 2.4.35 is out
After 6 months of testing, the wait is finally over: kernel 2.4.35 is out. This release is almost identical to 2.4.34.6, apart from updates to…
- Linux 0.01, or what Torvalds looked like when he was young
There's another entertaining post on KernelTrap, this time about the first Linux kernel release. A look back at where it all began. My favourite bit…
- Pyro: A new desktop built around FireFox
The developers’ main aim was to bring the web environment and a modern user interface closer together. Project website: pyrodesktop.org To install it under Linux,…
- A new userspace implementation for the Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds recently merged a patch into the main Linux kernel branch that changes how memory space used by user processes works. In practice, it…
- Torvalds calls the creators of GPLv3 “hypocrites”
Linus Torvalds called the developers of version 3 of the GPL “hypocrites” and compared them to religious fanatics. The Linux community’s main objection concerns a…
- Why we use Linux
or... airport security. Just look at the picture here.
- 2008: the year of the Linux desktop
The writers at maximumpc say that 2008 will definitely be the year of the Linux desktop. In recent months, they've seen what they call a…
- France’s Ministry of Agriculture chooses Linux
More than 400 servers at France’s Ministry of Agriculture have switched from Windows NT Server to Linux. According to the press release, the French ministry…
- Dell will offer discounts on Linux PCs
Dell plans to sell PCs with Linux preinstalled for $50 less than their Windows equivalents. This primarily concerns Dell's Inspiron 1420 with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled,…
- Palm won’t release its Linux smartphone until 2008
Palm CEO Ed Colligan has announced that the company is delaying its Linux-based smartphone until 2008. More details here.