Author: John
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Linux users and big data
From Barb Darrow on GigaOM For anyone thinking the big data trend is a flash in the pan, there’s some new evidence to the contrary. A hefty 75 percent of IT pros and developers responding to a new Linux Foundation survey have their eyes firmly on this big data phenomenon. More than three-quarters of the…
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Unsung Heroes of Linux
From Carla Schroder, here, on Linux.com comes a multi-part series entitled the Unsung Heroes of Linux. What caught my eye was the inclusion of Lady Ada whose products I have purchased starting soon after she started selling them as my son found them, and the Linux Wireless project, which, for those of us with early…
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More Fedora 16 Grub2 Tips and Tricks
I resolved the core.img is unusually large problem by expanding the boot partition. I was reinstalling a server yesterday and I found that Fedora 16 Anaconda will put a 1MB partition first in order to boot, before adding the 500MB (current standard) partition for /boot. Yeah! On the first machine, one of the tasks I…
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Raspberry PI’s $35 Computer Enters Production
From the FutureJournalism Project Raspberry PI Foundation, the UK-based non-profit, has begun production on its $35 Linux computer. It’s about the size of a credit card and will ship as an open board like that pictured above. For display, users can plug it into existing monitors or televisions. USB connections are available for keyboard and mouse.…
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Fedora 16 Grub2 Fail with “core.img is unusually large”
I was upgrading to Fedora 16 on my Dell Dimension E520, originally loaded with XP, and all manners of problems occurred with Grub2. The machine is set to dual boot Linux and Windows XP and has worked fine in this capacity while testing and using a number of Linux distributions including Fedora 14 and Fedora…