Gnome 3.0(ThreePointZero) scheduled to be released in April 2011

Yeah, yet another great news(perhaps old one). If you could see the Gnome Release Schedule, there is an eye catching schedule to be released after Gnome 2.91

I thought most people are currently waiting for the new breakthrough from Gnome, which is Gnome 3.0. I’m personally pretty excited when I saw that Gnome 3.0 is listed and scheduled to be released on April 2011. I hope some of my expectations for Gnome 3.0 in year 2008 can be implemented into this upcoming new generation of Windows Manager.

Here is the screenshot of 3.0 release schedule:

3.0 release schedule(click the picture to enlarge)

And here is the first milestone release screenshot of gnome 3:

More information about Gnome 3.0 can be viewed on this website.

Linux Web Hosting In-Depth

Linux is one of the most popular platforms in cheap web hosting. It is a complete open source hosting package, designed to be efficient and cost effective. This makes it the prime choice for web creators and many clients worldwide. Promoting stability of the server and reliability of websites, Linux is also chosen by experts, because of its server strength and competence, relative to its competitors. But despite widespread use of Linux as a web server and in the web hosting industry, many are still somewhat in the dark as to what exactly makes up Linux web hosting. So let’s take an in-depth look at what Linux hosting really is.

Blackberry BlackPad is finally known as PlayBook

Yeah, finally after waiting.. One of my favorite tablet gadget has been released by RIM. As you know, it is not a BlackPad anymore like people has rumored before then . Call it PlayBook… Wonder why they named it like that.. Perhaps it’s as easy as a child toy ==” . I think I’m gonna buy this soon enough when it reach Australia

Here is the video preview of BlackBerry PlayBook:

AllForLinux.com, late updates but still hot in Linux World!

hey guys, just a quick update since I’m currently quite a bit busy with my university life. But still I can promise to keep updating on this busy site.. So here are some news that perhaps are still hot to be read . Enjoy the updates.

The HOST dispatcher shell by Arimbun

A slightly harder—if not more interesting—program that simulates resource allocation on a computer system. HOST stands for Hypothetical Operating System Testbed, a multiprogramming system that manages resources in a four-level priority dispatcher. Taken straight off the Operating Systems Internal and Design Principles textbook by William Stallings, this is my second assignment in the COMP3520 Operating Systems Internals course taught at Sydney University.

Distro Review: Element

Today, I’d like to take a look on a newcomer of Linux Distroes family, this distro called “Element”. Element is a free and yet powerful multimedia operating system. As you can see, the developer of this distro have managed to combine both Ubuntu as a powerful Linux distro with the other multimedia software elements. As I can see, the developers have managed to show the users that “Linux” is not as boring as they’ve seen before. Things inside Element OS looked really cozy and it makes users to feel more comfortable with it. I personally enjoyed watching videos with XBMC media center on my full HDMI LCD TV.

Slitaz Linux, quick and lightweight distro

Another Linux distro has been released, this time emphasising speed and low space. I reckon it’ll be perfect for netbooks. Lots of improvements needed, but the potential is there. See Slitaz Linux.

Enabling webcam support for kernel 2.6.31.6 (Karmic)

I refer to my previous post about Karmic’s kernel not detecting webcam by default. To enable this feature, you’ll have to make changes to the kernel configuration before actually installing. However, don’t worry if you have already compiled the kernel; it’s still possible to re-configure and re-compile the kernel with the new settings you’re about to see.

Follow the steps in my previous post. But when you get to the configuration step, i.e.

make menuconfig

make gconfig

make kconfig

you’ll need to go Device drivers > Multimedia support > Video capture adapters > V4L USB devices and enable support for the corresponding webcam. Since I owned a Logitech Quickcam, the support that I had to enable was the GSPCA options (all SPCAXXX USB Camera Drivers). However, I read somewhere that SPCA561 support is sufficient. The following is the output of `lsusb | grep -i quickcam` on my machine.

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:09c1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks

Screenshot of the config option after enabling webcam support.

Then, just do the rest of the kernel setup and you’ll end up with a kernel image with webcam support. Good luck!

Slapping in Karmic's kernel into Jaunty, flawlessly

Warning: Jaunty might no longer detect your webcam after the installation. That was what happened to me. If you’re a heavy webcam user and can’t give up video chatting in Skype or Empathy, you can safely skip this post.

Here’s the latest hybrid I’ve done. If for one reason or another you’re still refusing to upgrade to Karmic, you might be interested in splicing in Karmic’s kernel (2.6.31.6) into Jaunty. I’ve tried it and worked flawlessly, but the performance boosts can rival that of Karmic.

Follow the steps below:

1. Click this link and download the full version of Karmic’s kernel. It should be in .tar.bz2 extension. At the time of writing, the latest stable version is 2.6.31.6 and that was what I tried out in Jaunty. You’re free to try later ones if you wish.
2. Place it somewhere in your directory and untar it with the following command:

   tar xjvf linux-2.6.31.6.tar.bz2 -C /usr/src

   This will unpack the file into your /usr/src folder as linux-2.6.31.6 folder.

3. Depending on your machine, you might need to install additional libraries before you can proceed. In my case, I needed the GCC compiler and three additional development packages as follows:

   sudo apt-get install gcc libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libglade2-dev

4. cd into linux-2.6.31.6 folder and the first command if you’re running GNOME, or the second one if KDE.

   make gconfig
make xconfig

   The above commands serve as configuration tools if you’re interested in adjusting kernel’ options (over 1,000!). Otherwise you can skip this step.

5. Compile the kernel image. This is the fun part, as it may take hours, so make time!

   make

6. Compile the kernel modules. Hopefully this should only take seconds.

   make modules

7. Install the kernel modules as sudo.

   sudo make modules_install

8. Install the kernel itself.

   make install

9. After the above step, you should be able to find three files in your /boot directory: System.map-2.6.31.6, config-2.6.31.6, vmlinuz-2.6.31.6
10. You now need to create an initrd kernel image to boot Jaunty with. This can easily be done by issuing the following command in your /boot directory.

    sudo mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.31.6 2.6.31.6

    In case you’re wondering why the command is called mkinitramfs instead of mkinitrd, the latter has been deprecated, so don’t use the old one.

11. That should take care of the kernel installation. As a last step, you’ll need to modify your GRUB menu to point to the new kernel image.

    sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

12. Add the following lines into the file.
    
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.31.6
uuid zzzzzzzzz
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.6 root=UUID=zzzzzzzzz ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31.6
quiet

    Make you sure replace zzzzzzzzz with your uuid that you can find in the file.

13. Once that’s done, reboot the system. Find the kernel image in the GRUB menu and boot into it. Enjoy!

Telnet Shell Commands (SSH Commands) to Control Your Linux Server

These following lists of commands are probably will help you to manage your Linux Server or modifying your website on the Linux server. For more complete information on using UNIX commands, you can refer to the online manual by typing man [command] at the UNIX prompt, where “[command]” represents the command you would like more information about.