Chris Mason released a new btrfs release where he corrected some bugs – the nastiest one was a checksumming bug. But the thing you’ll notice most, are the speedups.
Tag: linux
Samba or libcap-2.06?
After wrecking my system by doing some updates, I was forced to use revdep-rebuild again. So I went to bed for letting the PC work as it wouldn’t need me for compiling. The next morning I woke up and went to the screen and noticed an error message. Samba bailed out:
Goodbye Acer
My old Acer TravelMate 800 got a new owner by now – but life is quite ironic, as I bought the scooter from her. Let’s see how things develop. To be honest, she doesn’t really have a clue of windows or linux. So why not starting with something useful?
Tux on the rocks
It is not a secret anymore that you are able to freeze your system and save its state to disc for resuming work later. Windows calls it hibernation and linux talks about suspend to disc – but it’s about the same thing. The big advantage of this technique is simple: loading times are cut down to a minimum […]
The battle about KDE4
KDE won’t get out of the internal news since the KDE4 series are the topic number one and everybody seems to dig it. Nobody wants to wait to have a look at the new desktop – even in the gentoo forums, there’s much noise in many threads. But here a word of warning: Even the developers do not […]
No 2.6.23 yet
There was really big noise around the new kernel 2.6.23. But is it really worth it? I have waited for the gentoo-sources patchset, added my patches and started testing to satisfy my curiosity. But there were more problems around than good news. So I stepped back to the old gentoo-sources, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 with my swap prefetch pachset and uvesafb […]