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How to Install Debian Linux on an Embedded System (PPC440EPx)
Posted On: March 8, 2010
Posted In: Featured, Software Engineering
Comments: One Response How to Install Debian Linux on an Embedded System (PPC440EPx) By Melissa Soriano, Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. 
The hardware ... Read More...
Mark Shuttleworth at PyCon: Cadence, Quality and Design
Posted On: February 20, 2010
Posted In: Featured, People
Comments: One Response Mark Shuttleworth at PyCon: Cadence, Quality and Design Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Canonical (maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution) spoke with me at the PyCon 2010 Python conference in Atlanta, GA. We discussed ... Read More...
SCALE 8x: An Interview with Ilan Rabinovitch, Conference Chair, Southern California Linux Expo
Posted On: February 20, 2010
Posted In: Featured, Technology Conferences
Comments: No Responses SCALE 8x: An Interview with Ilan Rabinovitch, Conference Chair, Southern California Linux Expo The 8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles, CA occurs this weekend February 19-21. I interviewed Ilan Rabinovitch, the conference chair and one of ... Read More...
SCALE 8x: Eric Hammond on Deploying Linux on EC2
Posted On: February 18, 2010
Posted In: Featured, Technology Conferences
Comments: One Response SCALE 8x: Eric Hammond on Deploying Linux on EC2 Eric Hammond is an expert in the practical aspects of running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2.  I recently did a guest post on the Southern California ... Read More...
First Look: Fresh From Hong Kong, The Aigo Mobile Internet Device (MID)
Posted On: March 5, 2009
Posted In: Featured, Mobile
Comments: No Responses First Look: Fresh From Hong Kong, The Aigo Mobile Internet Device (MID) This article begins a three part series of a review of the Aigo Mobile Internet Device and it’s presence in the mobile device and software ... Read More...
SCALE 7x: Bryan Che on Red Hat Realtime Linux
Posted On: March 3, 2009
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Comments: No Responses SCALE 7x: Bryan Che on Red Hat Realtime Linux Bryan Che is the Product Manager at Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise MRG, Red Hat's Messaging, Realtime, and Grid offering. In this capacity, Bryan ... Read More...
SCALE 7x: Clint Savage of the Fedora Project on Spinning Your Own Linux LiveCD
Posted On: February 28, 2009
Posted In: Featured, Open Source, Technology Conferences
Comments: 2 Responses SCALE 7x: Clint Savage of the Fedora Project on Spinning Your Own Linux LiveCD Clint Savage, West Regional Ambassador for North America, joined the FedoraProject.org, gave a talk at SCALE this year on how to spin your own custom ... Read More...
Q&A: How and Why Oracle is Utilizing Virtualization and Open Source
Posted On: February 25, 2009
Posted In: Featured, Open Source, Virtualization
Comments: No Responses Q&A: How and Why Oracle is Utilizing Virtualization and Open Source Wim Coekaerts, Vice President Linux Engineering at Oracle, reveals what Oracle is doing with open source technology, their position on open source development, and how ... Read More...
Linux Foundation to Start First Annual LinuxCon Conference in 2009
Posted On: November 15, 2008
Posted In: Technology Conferences
Comments: One Response Linux Foundation to Start First Annual LinuxCon Conference in 2009 The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of a new Linux-only conference in September of 2009 in Portland Oregon. This will most likely be the ... Read More...
Monitoring Disk I/O, CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Swap with vmstat on Unix and Linux
Posted On: September 11, 2008
Posted In: System Administration
Comments: No Responses Monitoring Disk I/O, CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Swap with vmstat on Unix and Linux vmstat is a very useful command found on Linux and other Unix distributions that allows for real-time monitoring of most health vitals. Explained here is ... Read More...
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