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Building Ganglia

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

This is one of those reminder posts because I always google what dependencies I need to install in order to build Ganglia in Debian based Linux. The dependencies are: build-essential libconfuse0 libconfuse-dev libapr1-dev libexpat1-dev libpcre3-dev UPDATE: To create default configuration, run: gmond -t > /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf If configuration file is somewhere else, change path accordingly.

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ChromeOS first impressions

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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 [...]

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XtreemOS 2.0

Monday, November 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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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 the [...]

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[Linux] filesystem check without live CD

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

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

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