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Comment Web Search cloud computing? (Score 1) 621

by smyrnensis on Thursday October 02, 2008 @05:36AM (#25230661) Attached to: Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap

Does Web Search count as cloud computing? Or is it not just because we do not hand our data to any third party? And if it does, what is the Free Software alternative?

Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro 354

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @11:34AM from the replace-the-disembarculator dept.

Linzer writes "In this blog entry, Fred Crozat (head of Mandriva's engineering team in France) explains in great detail how his team has been detecting and getting rid of bottlenecks in the boot process, from the early stages to loading the desktop environment, thus decreasing overall boot time. An informative tour of the nuts and bolts of the boot process and how they can be tinkered with: initrd, initscripts, udev, modprobe calls. The basic tool they use for performance analysis is bootchart, which produces a map of process information and resource utilization during boot. The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type her password."

FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion 120

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @02:10PM from the subvert-the-dominant-paradigm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis. People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution network (including anoncvs, CVSup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be interrupted by our work-in-progress. We are committed to maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for at least the support lifetime of all existing 'stable' branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made available in their usual CVS locations."

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