Demorecorder for Linux
Sat, September 2nd 2006 at 03:03am
Have not tried it yet, but looks like a cool option for making Screencasts in Linux. Can export to Flash, MPEG2, or AVI. Not free, but looks like an good option./
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Upstart First Impressions
Thu, August 31st 2006 at 12:49am
*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.
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Parallels 2.2BETA on Ubuntu
Mon, August 28th 2006 at 11:54pm
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.
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