Entries tagged with “linux” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

VirtualBox 2.1.0 adds Intel VT-x hardware virtualization support as well as the ability to run 64-bit Guest OSes on a 32-bit host OS. I installed Xubuntu (based on Ubuntu 8.1.0) and brought in the previously built Windows 2000 Guest OS for testing. The results look good so far.

Sun VirtualBox 2.0 was released on Sept. 4, 2008. I tried this free Open Source cross-platform virtualization hypervisor on an iMac running OS X Leopard. Microsoft Windows virtualization looks somewhat improved. But, running Fedora 9 Linux resulted in problems that I did not see with VirtualBox 1.6.2 a few months ago.

VMware Fusion 2 Release Candidate 1 addresses the major problems I ran into when I tried the Beta 2 release a month ago. There are a few glitches I ran into. But, it looks like Fusion 2.0 is on track for a production release soon.

VMware Fusion 2 Beta 2 looks good when used with Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. I ran into problems when testing it with Fedora 8 though. It is a Beta release, however. So, I'm not passing judgement on it until I see the Release Candidate and production release.

Why bring your *nix app to the Mac if you're a scientist?

VirtualBox 1.6.2 is an Open Source virtualization hypervisor that runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. I tested it by installing Windows 2000 and Fedora 9 on my iMac. It doesn't have all the features of VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. But, the price is right and it does a pretty decent job. Read on for more impressions from my testing...

Psystar, the company that caused a bit of a stir recently by announcing a Mac-clone called "Open Computer" have now posted a video which, they claim, shows that machine in operation.

O'Reilly's Linux Dev Center just published a fairly technical discussion of how the various Linux audio subsystems work. For those who just want to boot up and play, we've run several Linux audio articles, including: Resurrect Your Old PC for Music—with Linux Review: Fervent Software Studio-to-Go Inside a Luxury Synth: Creating the Linux-Powered Korg OASYS Inside Pandora: Web Radio That...

After three years of "community" Mandrake Linux, my work PC has run out of steam. Lots of rubbish and out of date: time for a spring clean and a new operating system! So I decided to do things the easy way: go down to the newsagent and pick a nice looking distribution from a magazine DVD and install that. So...

The Linux Audio Conference is in full swing until March 25th in Berlin. If you can't make it, you can view the streams during the program. As in previous years, the streams will be archived and made available after the conference.  There are also several IRC channels devoted to the conference (copied from their page) #lac2007 for general chitchat about...

Last week I reported pictures surfacing of the $100 laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project. eWeek.com recently reported the first working model made by PC Manufacturer Quanta....

Fervent Software releases a major upgrade for Rosegarden - a main component of the powerful Linux music workstation Studio To Go (the world's roundest and flattest portable studio.)

Our behind-the-scenes tour of Korg’s $8,000, Linux-powered synthesizer skipped one impressive feature: the brilliant KARMA algorithmic music generator. Fortunately, you can now experience it through a boatload of online music videos.

Modern prevailing GUIs lack the ability to get down and dirty. For some reason, the character-based user interface has gone the way of the teletype... that is, save for *nix users. Oh yeah, and the other thing Windows doesn't have....

While I don't usually upgrade, in this case it worked flawlessly.

How can you go wrong with a single-CD install that just works?

"The following are individual pages with information about various technologies relevant to improving bootup time for Linux. Some of these describe local patches available on this site. Others point off to projects or patches maintained elsewhere."

OS X Server has been out for a few years. Why are there so few technical books available for it?

Thoughts, opinions and observations after spending two consecutive weeks at decidedly different conferences, both having to do with Open Source and Linux. Part 2.

Thoughts, opinions and observations after spending two consecutive weeks at decidedly different conferences, both having to do with Open Source and Linux. Part 1.