Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Has USB 3.0 Support
Sep 10, 2009 Linux
The new Linux Kernel 2.6.31 has been released. It’s a good news that I am waiting for this release because I’ve some issues with my built-in ATI video card driver on Ubuntu Linux.
Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.31:
- Support for USB 3.0;
- CUSE and OSS proxy;
- The desktop interactivity under memory pressure was improved;
- Performance counters;
- Support for IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Networks);
- Support for Gcov;
- Kmemcheck;
- Kmemleak;
- Fsnotify;
- Initial support for the NFS 4.1 client;
- mmap readhead improvements;
- Btrfs improvements;
- Ext4 improvements.
Hopefully Ubuntu team will release soon the kernel for Ubuntu Linux:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
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Change Ubuntu week start day to Monday
Sep 9, 2009 Linux
I don’t really like that Ubuntu week start day is Sunday. To change to Monday run the following commands:
$ locale #verify you localization eg. en_US.UTF-8 $ sudo gedit /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US |
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Setup Ubuntu
Aug 29, 2009 Linux
This is not an installation guide for UBUNTU Linux.
Just a description what you should do after installation, to get a perfect operating system based on UBUNTU.
Even this is not an installation guide, let me tell you what I am care about before installation:
- Before all, I always make try of Live CD. YOu can burn it to a blank CD, or just put the .iso file to your hard disk and run the Live system and check if eveything is OK.
- Backup you existing data
- Think carefully about partitioning scheme you want to use
- I do not use LVM (logical volumes), and don’t recomment to use because there are not any tool to read these partinion outside of you Linux installation
- Use ext4 filesystem, it’s much better than then previous ext3
- Upgrade your BIOS. Maybe you’ll find it funny, but when there is a new upgrade or OS installation, firstly I look for a BIOS upgrade if exists. It’s not related to Ubuntu and you can have a better BIOS.
So when you have you system up and run, you can start your UBUNTU optimization:
Run Synaptic or Update Manager
Update your system
Add some alias to avoid to much typing
gedit /root/.bashrc |
Add these lines:
alias pinggo='ping google.com'; #an alias for ping google alias h='cd /home'; #change quicker to a directory alias logd='cd /var/log/'; #idem alias unrar='unrar x '; #unrar need the default parameter to extract files alias du='du -h '; #print human readable file space size |
Enable bash programmed autocompletion
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