Posted by: Rocky
on February 05 2010
With all the virtualization schemes running on top of Linux, how do they exploit the underlying kernel for I/O virtualization? The answer is virtio, which provides an efficient abstraction for hypervisors and a common set of I/O virtualization drivers. Discover virtio, and learn why Linux will soon be the hypervisor of choice.
Posted by: Rocky
on February 05 2010
The two open source tools that this article introduces — Swing Explorer and FEST-Swing — can make debugging and testing of Swing UIs simple and reliable. This article shows how to use them to understand a UI's structure, test how it functions, and troubleshoot issues.
Posted by: Sharon
on February 05 2010
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Presenting New Community Distributions at FOSDEM’10, 6-7 February, Brussels
Zarafa, the fastest growing groupware company in Europe, expects an exponential uptake in the community now that two major community distributions have decided to package Zarafa’s Collaboration Platform (ZCP).
Posted by: Thom Brown
on February 04 2010
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I have been looking for a decent GUI client for Subversion on Linux for a long time. I've tried sets of Nautilus scripts, NaughtySVN, ESvn, QSvn, SubdiverSVN, and probably a few others, but never found one that worked that well. At work I unfortunately use Windows, but the client used on that is TortoiseSVN, probably the best known Subversion GUI client there is. I wanted something that worked as well and comprehensively as that. Now along comes RabbitVCS to solve this problem!
RabbitVCS is an open source set of graphical tools inspired by TortoiseSVN, which currently supports both Nautilus and Thunar file managers. It also aims to support several version control system, with Git currently on the roadmap and others such as Mercurial and Bazaar probably not that far behind.
Posted by: Rocky
on February 02 2010
Vimscript is a mechanism for reshaping and extending the Vim editor. Scripting allows you to create new tools, simplify common tasks, and even redesign and replace existing editor features. Start with Part 1 and get the basic elements of Vimscript. In Part 2 learn how to create and deploy new functions in the Vimscript. In Part 3 Explore Vimscript's support for lists and arrays.
Posted by: Rocky
on February 02 2010
Walk through the steps of incorporating OpenID into a sample Java application. Rather than implement the OpenID Authentication specification by hand, author J. Steven Perry uses the openid4java library and a popular OpenID provider, myOpenID, to create a safe and reliable registration process for a Java application written in Wicket.
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