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Kernel Log: BIOS bugs behind greater power use – The H Open Source: News and Features

Luca Maranzano — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:21:21 +0000

Finally someone at Phoronix has found the reason of the greater power usage of the latest Linux Kernel.

Kernel Log: BIOS bugs behind greater power use – The H Open Source: News and Features.

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New Linux kernel 2.6.38 gets a speed boost

Luca Maranzano — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:12:13 +0000

The new Linux Kernel 2.6.38 has been released and has a lot of new exciting features and improvements.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/new-linux-kernel-gets-speed-boost-723
Besides, it seems that Ubuntu Natty will get this kernel.
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Interactive map of the Linux Kernel

Luca Maranzano — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:18:43 +0000

Linux Kernel Map:
http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

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VMware Tools and Linux Kernel 2.6.24

Luca Maranzano — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:01:43 +0000

It seems that from Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 the standard VMware Tools shipped with VMware ESX 3.5 (at least) do not compile.

It is necessary to download the Open Virtual Machine Tools and to make the following trick:

# tar -xzf open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
#  cd open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
#  modsrc="/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source"
#  for x in `ls -d v*`
#  do
>     mv $x ${x}-only
>     tar -cf $x.tar ${x}-only
>     mv ${x}-only $x
>     mv $modsrc/$x.tar $modsrc/$x.tar.orig
>     mv $x.tar $modsrc
>  done

# vmware-config-tools.pl

Running vmware-config-tools.pl should compile all the modules without any warning.
It works fine at least with ESX 3.5.1 update1 (build 82663).
I’ve tested it with Ubuntu Server 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-server.

Original source is: http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/VMware_Tools

Enjoy!