Lifehacker has the link to an Ubuntu Tutorial on Installing Plugins for Gnome-Do the launcher. If you don’t know, Gnome-Do is a powerful application launcher, much like some of the apps available for Windows.
… extend Gnome-Do’s powers to music management, Gmail, system functions, and other tasks, Ubuntu Tutorials has put together a simple guide to installing plug-ins for the launcher, a trick that’s not readily apparent for first-time users …
Want to learn or play around with Linux but don’t want to mess up your PC? A live CD is a bootable CD which will (in this case) let you run Ubuntu Linux (the current popular flavour) without installing anything! It all runs off the cd, so its perfect for the first time user — get more details here.
Whether you are interested in specific apps, or you want a chance to learn but need to keep running Windows or whatever the reason, andLinux is an interesting project.
As you can see above, andLinux runs natively under Windows, allowing you to execute Linux applications (like XFCE) on your Windows machine.
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista; 32-bit versions only). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design. andLinux is free and will remain so, but donations are greatly needed.
andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.
Read more and try it out at the project site www.andLinux.org.
FreeBSD has long been plagued by less-than-best SMP performance, especially in versions 4 and 5. Slashdot is reporting FreeBSD 7.0 SMP performs much better, and is ahead of Linux.
“After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Linux kernels (PDF, see slides 17 to 19) on 8 CPUs under PostgreSQL and MySQL. While a couple of benchmarks are not conclusive evidence, it can be assumed that FreeBSD will once again be a serious performance contender. Some posters on LWN have noted that the level of Linux performance could be related to the Completely Fair Scheduler, which was merged into the 2.6.23 Linux kernel.”
There has since been an update trying to prove that Linux is faster –
Update: 03/06 21:32 GMT by KD : An anonymous reader sent in word that Linux kernel developer Nick Piggin reran the benchmark today and came to a different conclusion: In his benchmark Linux was faster than FreeBSD.
But whoever the winner, the performance is clearly much, much better than before.
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