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As with anything new coming from Google, there has been a lot of expectation regarding the new Google “operating system” for PCs based on the Chrome browser.
Truth is that, as the mobile-devices-oriented Android, ChromeOS can be hardly called an Operating system but rather a Linux distribution.
ChromeOS’s concept is simple; remove absolutely everything from GNU/Linux that [...]
After several months of hard work and testing we are pleased to announce the second public release of XtreemOS, a Linux-based grid operating system. It is GPL/BSD licensed, based on Mandriva Linux, and can be downloaded from http://www.xtreemos.eu/software/downloading. The source code is available here.
Version 2.0 includes the following functionalities:
Creation and management of dynamic virtual [...]
With all the regression bugs in recent kernel releases I had my doubts whether to update my desktop Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope installation to the latest 9.10 Karmic Koala. I’ve read several comparisons between 9.04 and 9.10, but usually those benchmarks use the default (and clean) installations, which in the case of 9.10 brings [...]
On a mounted partition filesystem check (fsck) of course cannot be done and many tutorials suggest using a live CD of some sort. Here is a solution to force fsck on the next reboot:
touch /forcefsck
reboot