How To Speed Up Linux Desktop by 30%+

October 10th, 2008 Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

March 23rd, 2009 Perhaps the smallest and still stable desktop based Linux version is Tiny Core Linux. It takes only 10MB size and runs on USB drive, CD or an internal hard disk drive, almost anywhere you want it to.

August 23rd, 2007 According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in 2006, and Ubuntu remains the no. 1 Linux distribution of choice for desktop users.

November 16th, 2007 Lenovo (formerly IBM division) announced very good price for Lenovo H Series (531188Q) Desktop with Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2140 (1.6 GHZ), 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD and 17" Flat CRT monitor. E2140 Mini Review E2140 processor has 1MB L2 cache at 1.6Ghz speed.

June 23rd, 2008 While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn't find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later.

July 30th, 2007 It has been several months that I fully migrated to Linux. The whole company has moved 100% to Linux, all servers, desktop ...

September 3rd, 2008 Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements.

April 5th, 2006 In an interesting press release IBM announced today that Olympus America Inc., a precision company that designs and delivers solutions in healthcare and consumer electronics worldwide, has increased the performance of its Web services three times by supplementing its current environment with Linux on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing solution. I am not surprised.

March 8th, 2007 I have been evaluating both Xubuntu and Fedora Core along with Cent OS (Open Source version / fork of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition). The key value and differences between these releases are: Xubuntu Xubuntu is definitely faster to use in general due to its light-weight Xfce desktop interface.

May 30th, 2006 Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday. The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

September 7th, 2007 I am wading through tons of material to improve my knowledge of Linux networking in general and more specifically to configure our firewalls properly and routing for multiple uplink providers with traffic shaping and failover. My earlier attempt to shortcut with eBox failed so this time I am going all the way.

January 29th, 2009 Covering the most popular Linux shells (such as bash, ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh), this reference book shows how to use commands to create scripts within each shell and demonstrates practical applications for shell scripts (including retrieving information from Web sites and sending automated reports via e-mail). For each shell, the author discusses the commands available and explains how to use these commands to create scripts that can automate common functions and reports.

September 11th, 2007 I morally support BadVista campaign in as much as it helps educate people that: 1. Windows Vista is actually a downgrade (from Windows XP or Windows 2000) wherein you are forced to support DRM (for content producers) at your expense (CPU & Memory) forcing you to upgrade your hardware just to get reasonable performance out of Windows Vista (cost analysis).

October 9th, 2009 CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.