Archive for September, 2007
ZFS as LVM killer … really?
Friday, September 28th, 2007From the ZFS FAQ: Can devices be removed from a ZFS pool? You can remove a device from a mirrored ZFS configuration by using the zpool detach command. Removal of a top-level vdev, such as an entire RAID-Z group or a disk in an unmirrored configuration, is not currently supported. This feature is planned for [...]
Compiz interest
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007From time to time, I try Compiz, to see if how it has evolved. The last time was yesterday (I also switched to the xserver-xorg-driver-ati from experimental). But as usual, after using it for a few minutes, I can’t help switching back to metacity. I don’t think that Compiz’s visual effects bring anything on the [...]
creating a “Distributions Developers Forum”: follow-up
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007After that blog post, I decided to write a mail asking a first set of questions. I sent it to developers’ mailing lists of Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, openSUSE, and of course Debian and Ubuntu. I got really interesting answers from everyone, except …. Debian and Ubuntu. I want to wait some more before publishing the [...]
Better Debian RC bugs graphs
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007if you like to monitor the number of RC bugs, you are probably annoyed by the graph on http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/. The graph starts in 2003, making it impossible to read short-time changes. There’s a bug about that: #431299: RC bug status graph timescale is too long. And I provided a patch a few months ago, but [...]
Idea: creating a “Distributions Developers Forum” ?
Friday, September 14th, 2007Scientific papers always have a “related works” section, where the authors describe how the work they are presenting compares with what others did. In the Free Software world, this is nearly non-existent: in a way, it seems that many of us are thinking of their projects as competing products, fighting for market share. On a [...]
Re: Bash: la commande hash -r
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Je réponds ici à un billet d’Alban sur la commande hash -r de bash. Lisez son billet avant pour comprendre ma réponse ! bash et tcsh gèrent le $PATH d’une manière différente. À chaque commande exécutée, bash parcourt les répertoires du $PATH à la recherche de la commande, et garde un cache des commandes déjà [...]
Which distribution on Thinkpads: really the good question to ask?
Thursday, September 13th, 2007After Dell, Lenovo decided to ask users which Linux distribution they should put on Thinkpads. Seriously, who cares? If I buy a laptop that comes with Linux pre-installed, my first step would be to reinstall it from scratch, exactly like with a laptop with Windows pre-installed. Because the choices that were made wouldn’t match mine [...]