LINUX For You January 2010 Issue Vol. 7 No. 11 For U & Me The Fedora 12 Review This is Constantine! Fedora 12 has many—that's actually, MANY—enhancements. In this article, we'll only take a look at it from an 'everyday' desktop user's point of view.
Open Gurus A Primer on ext4 Now that almost all distributions offer ext4 as the default file system, it’s high time we looked at the most compelling feature set of the file system and understood how to migrate from its predecessor.	Open Gurus Bootstrapping Fedora 12 If you’ve wanted to know what exactly goes on behind that cute boot splash when you boot Fedora, read on.

Open Gurus Roll Out a Fedora Remix This article teaches you how to remix Fedora with your choice of apps, and roll out an ISO for others to enjoy.	Developers Introducing Kernel Samepage Merging The motivation of KSM comes from the observation that on a large machine running several virtual machines (potentially running the same OS), there are a number of duplicate pages, each consuming a page of memory in the hypervisor.

For U & Me How Does a Project Get Late? Arguably, the most important non-renewable resource is time. But how much of it should you spend at the project or contributor level to reap the benefits of good time management? Unless you have a cost-effective solution, which is free from licence restrictions, you are defeating the very purpose of managing time.	For U & Me GIMP for Beginners, Part 6 Souping Up Photos Welcome to the sixth instalment of tutorials on the GIMP. In this article, we will focus on improving photographs and images by using an array of effects.

For U & Me Sound Sleep with Open Source Sheela Foam, a Ghaziabad-based home and industrial foam products manufacturer, placed its bets on open source and has never looked back, since.	Developers The Language of the Year 2009 In the exciting world of programming languages, which one ought to bag the 'Language of the Year 2009' award? In this article, we pick a winner!

Developers Open Source Tools in GIS Here’s an overview of the open source GIS tools for data visualisation, storage and file conversion.	Admin The Art of Guard-Part 7: Creating Real Life Policy Modules In the last article in this series, we introduced a new type, lfy_t, to our SELinux environment. To do this we created our own SELinux module called test and its version number was 1.0. Since the last article, my system has been upgraded and, currently, I am using Fedora Core 12.

For U & Me Indian HPC Users Get Access to Customised & Cost-effective Solutions Bangalore-based IT solutions company, Digital Waves, promises to give Indian researchers, academic institutions and large organisations powerful new solutions in high performance computing after its recent alliance with Russian supercomputing company, T-Platforms. This article takes a peek into their plans.	Admin The Why and the How of Migrating to MySQL MySQL is a leading open source relational database management system. With almost 15 years of active development, it is one of the most robust, scalable and reliable RDBMS solutions out there, head to head with other RDBMS like PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. In this article, we will look at whether you should migrate from any other RDBMS to MySQL, and how to go about doing it.

Open Gurus Damn Simple Linux Personalising the Damn Small Linux to roll your own OS.	Column: The Joy of Programming Test Your C skills In this column, we’ll look at how some macros are implemented in C header files in Linux.

Column: Python in Research Part 5: Visualisation The power of Mayavi/VTK is such that just a few lines of code can create beautiful imagery, which can help you get an insight into scientific data.	LFY DVD Fedora 12 & Omega 12 (Boxer) New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include next-generation Ogg Theora video, virtualisation improvements and advancements to NetworkManager, among numerous others. A ‘Fedora Remix’ suitable for desktop and laptop users. It has all the features of Fedora 12 and a number of additional software, including multimedia players and codecs by default.

LFY CD Untangle 7.1 & SystemRescueCd 1.3.3 This is a Debian-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, Web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, firewall, and more. This is the ideal OS for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. [Burn the ISO image to an empty disc to use the Live distro.]	Developers Binutils Porting Guide to a New Target Architechture The article intends to help software engineers who want to port the binutils tools to a new hardware architecture for the first time.

Developers Readying Linux for Today’s Embedded Devices Cutting down Linux’s boot time is one last hurdle that needs to be conquered. Work on that front is going on...	Admin Performance Tuning and Monitoring Part 4 Tune memory requirements, learn about changing kernel behaviour in relation to memory allocation, fiddle with the memory overcommit feature, and enhance performance by tuning the ARP cache.

Admin IPCop Firewall for SMEs Here’s the success story of a firewall implementation that helped an SME meet its client's requirements without spending on unnecessary software baggage.	Open Gurus Getting Started with GNU Octave, Part 2 This time we’ll explore matrices a little further and solve a few equations along the way.

Column: FOSS__is__Fun: Can FOSS Skills Be Measured? What if we try to design a certification to gauge the person’s capabilities?	Admin Virtualisation Enhancements in Fedora 12 Release 12, the latest Fedora distribution that came out in November 2009, offers users a lot of new virtualisation features. The Dirty Dozen, as this set of virtualisation features is called, are targeted at improving security, better performance, more stability, a better platform for developers as well as some usability enhancements.

Column CodeSport As per our readers’ request, this month’s column is a ‘New Year’ special featuring more programming-related interview questions.	Column: A Voyage to the Kernel Part 20 Segment: 3.9, Day 19

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