Marketing the Ubuntu OS in the US

If your business is looking for someone who can install and support a customized Linux package then eWeek may have an article you will want to read.   eWeek has posted a story about The Linux Box which has just announced a partnership with Canonical.  This partnership will give The Linux Box the opportunity to market the Ubuntu operating system in the US.

Check out the article here.

Eps.19 - Are you monitoring your servers and network?

Running Time: 52:52

1) Introduction

2) News

Will Google Fork Android from Linux? And Symbian Goes Open Source...

California says yes to Open Source Software...

3) Are you monitoring your servers and network?

The follow up to last weeks and first part of a two part series.

4) Conclusion

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Will Google Fork Android from Linux?

Was doing my daily reading and ran across this article on itworld.com.  This article discusses how the drivers for Android have been removed from the Linux kernel's staging tree.  No mention of the word fork was stated in any posts, but many will wonder why do this move now?

Greg Kroah-Hartman posted a lengthy explanation stating one reason for removing the code is that no one was currently working on it. 

We will have to follow this story as it progresses further and actually see if a true fork ends up happening.

Post us some comments and let us know whether you think a fork would be good or bad?

Update on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:00AM by Brian "Wags" Wagner

I found another article around this topic at h-online

Need a quick pick me up for a slowing application?

If the application you are having problems with does a lot of reading and writing to files a quick fix might be to use a RAM based file system.  Yes that precious RAM we all love to have for our apps might be better spent creating a temporary file system.  If you then copy the often written to application files onto this RAM based file system you should see tremendous performance increases.  With systems running the Core i7 architecture the boost could be even higher because of the higher RAM speeds and lower latency between the CPU and the chips.  The only way to find out though is to give it a try.  To do that you will need a RAM Disk of some kind.  I found this how to over at Linux Mag that should be a good starting point.  While I haven't done these exact instructions, I have done this before and they seem to be correct.  As with anything though your mileage may very.  Test your solution thoroughly before implementing this in a production environment.  Remember you are dealing with RAM and if you have to reboot anything not saved off from that RAM Disk will be lost.

Are you an oprotunistic developer?

Jono Bacon, Community Manager at Ubuntu, has assembled a nice article about what one needs to write the quick and scratch your own itch applications Linux and FLOSS are known for without a lot of hassle.  The concept hearkens back to the good old days of Unix when apps were focused on doing one task and doing it well.  His article is a great getting started guide to help you easily find the parts you will need.  Check it out.