KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net]

 

There may be no single organization which runs more Linux systems than Google. But the kernel development community knows little about how Google uses Linux and what sort of problems are encountered there. Google's Mike Waychison traveled to Tokyo to help shed some light on this situation; the result was an interesting view on what it takes to run Linux in this extremely demanding setting.

KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net]

Powertop

Powertop

PowerTOP is a Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle.

Silverlight and Linux

Finally it had gotten to the point where everything on the web would work in Linux. At the silverlight web page you will see that their is a windows and mac support, but not Linux. Are we going to lose the ability to work equally well on the web whether using a Mac, Windows or Linux? Why isn't anybody talking about this?

Another point to consider. The abc.com online player used to work just fine on all platforms. Their new improved player doesn't work with Linux. Or Vista. What does the new player have to offer that made it acceptable to break Linux/Vista compatibility?

Update: A day later, and their is a slashdot post about this issue:

LinuxBIOS demo videos

Amazing.

Linus interview (video)

A three minute interview with Linus Torvalds where he talks about his surprise for the "resilience of 2.6 kernel".

Firefox 2.0 and backspace

Now here is an example of interesting search you can come across thanks to blogsearch. On my kubuntu install firefox 2.0 does not go back in history when you hit the backspace key. On my OS X box it does. I'm not sure how true the above article is, but it gives one explanation of why the backspace key doesn't work the same on Linux, and the politics behind it.

kubuntu, wpa and...

knetworkmanager rocks!

I didn't have to do anything. Just apt-get install knetworkmanager, start knetworkmanager, and enter the WPA password. Nice.