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The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

New Linux kernel 2.6.38 gets a speed boost

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.
((enjoy))

Interactive map of the Linux Kernel

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

((enjoy))

Vodafone Mobile Connect for Linux

If you have a Vodafone Internet Key and you don’t want to get crazy configuring it, use this really fine package: Vodafone Mobile Connect from Betavine Forge, a Vodafone Group R&D Lab.

It has nice features like:

statistics about transferred bytes (rx/tx)
sending SMS
choosing your preferred network settings (gprs, umts, preferred)
nice Python GUI
automatic detection of your Internet Key
(not [...]

Neo FreeRunner and OpenMoko: a new phone era?

The Neo FreeRunner is going live for production in these days and will be distributed in Europe in the next weeks. I’m very happy about this!

There is an enthusiastic post on the OpenMoko Announce list from Sean Moss-Pultz, the title is “Let us impact the material world”, it’s really worth reading.

I wish a [...]

VMware Tools and Linux Kernel 2.6.24

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
> [...]