So with my rant against desktop virtualization on linux in mind, I decided that perhaps my gripes were really with VMware and to give parallels a try. So I signup, request a trial key and go to download the product… and I’m met with a server error, or broken link FOR THE LAST 12 hours
Is [...]
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Grant Ingersoll of the Apache Lucene project. Lucene developed open source search libraries, and Mahuts goals are to develop Machine Learning libraries around hadoop, and hbase.
This is definitely a project worth watching. It’s just starting (was accepted to apache on the 28th) so if you are looking to jump in, now is the time.
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Desktop Virtualization on Linux sucks, especially compared to the options available to Mac OS X users who have both Parallels and VMWare fusion.
VMWare Desktop is slow, even on my q6600 quad core with 4gigs of ram. The integration blows, it’s only good for syncing my ipod at best. iTunes will play sound just fine, but [...]
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I’m a lurker on a lot of the FreeBSD mailing lists … and found this interesting blurb from Ken Smith somewhat un-officially announcing that 7.0 RC2 would be released early next week and would hopefully be the last RC release
Quick summary we’re shooting for getting 7.0-RC2 done Real Soon Now
(originally targetted this weekend but [...]
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The ubuntu team has posted the second release of their LTS (Long Term Support) 6.06 release.
This new iso-spin includes many patches so users who use this new install cd won’t have to download approximately 600 MBs of patches (it’s been out for a while now).
The mailing list has more here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2008-January/000107.html
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Ivan Voras posted two cool screen shots of Solaris ldom virtualization.
http://blogs.sun.com/ash/resource/flashdemos/64-ldoms-on-t2.html
http://blogs.sun.com/ash/resource/flashdemos/linux-ldom.html
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Lot’s of movement at Wikia today.
1) Foowi, the “Social” aspects have gone open source. See: http://svn.swlabs.org/foowi
2) I’ve released a few patches for the re-designed grub crawler, that aim to make things easier to use. The patch only slightly breaks things. See here: http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/grub-dev/2008-January/thread.html
3) The Nutch stuff is supposed to be open sourced in the coming [...]
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This is a short blerb, but Jeremie aka Jer outlines his plan on taking the recently aquired from looksmart crawler “grub” and replacing its heavy SOAP communication protocol with essentially RESTful interface.
http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/grub-dev/2007-November/000010.html
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