*UPDATE: 9/3/2006 It seems that Upstart will be ready for Edgy.

Upstart is a new boot loader that is in development that could be a potential replacement for sysvinit. The program is basically in charge of starting up all the programs you need when you start your machine to make it do anything useful. This program is quite important because it is a major factor in determining how long your computer takes to boot.

I first heard about Upstart a few days ago. It is being developed by some of the developers at Canonical Limited, the company behind Ubuntu, and is looking like a good system. You can read in more detail about how Upstart works when compared to other systems, but basically it differs from the others in that it uses an Event Driven model to boot the system rather than a liner system.

This site is a simple but great idea. It is basically a editorialized digest of the Drupal mailing lists. Providing the most relevant information in an easy to view format.

This is a great Linux hardware and software news/reviews site. The best thing about the site are their original hardware reviews from a Linux stand point.

Recently there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization of operating systems. In the past I have never really seen the point of virtualization for myself, but after listening to a few podcasts on the subject and reading quite a lot of information about it on the web, this technology is looking more useful all the time. It can be used for anything from running Windows apps in Linux, having a secure sand box operating system to test out new software, to trying out new operating systems before installing them.

So the first thing I wanted to do was download one of the popular virtualization packages and give it a spin. There appear to be two main products out there at the moment, VMWare and Parallels. VMWare is the grand-daddy of them all, and has been around forever, and Parallels is the relatively new kid on the block. Parallels has been getting a lot of press recently with it's Mac line of products so I thought I would start with that and see how it performs in Linux.

This is a cool free service that replaces your standard DNS server provided by your ISP.

As is customary here at cmx.net with every major overhaul I start with a quick overview and review of the CMS I am using to run the site. Actually cmx.net skipped version 4.6 and went straight to 4.7 so there are a few things that I consider new and cool that are actually from the previous release. In any case it will not hurt to go over some of the main features of the new releases from 4.5.

Unfortunately some of the changes to the site are so fundamental that I have decided to start fresh with 4.7.3. This means that all the previous content is gone (which is no real big loss), but I also lost the user accounts which I am more annoyed about. I apologize to the users that already had accounts created, and hope that you will consider signing up again, and posting comments.