Alina Swietochowska’s blogs
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New for security (Linux) offering
26 January 2012
Apparently, there can never be too much said about computer security, and so we thought we’d chip in, constructively. The best manner for us, is to offer a new course – this time, one that focuses on handling various security techniques in Linux.
If you build it – they will come
16 September 2011
IT administrators and decision makers have a lot to answer for – all too often they make snappy, easy, popular decisions, instead of applying a skilful mix of open-mindedness, determination and knowledge to achieve best outcomes. We can’t do much about open-mindedness and determination: you either have it or you don’t. What we can do, is to demonstrate how to improve the understanding and the skills in various aspects of open source and Linux-based technologies. Equipped with those skills, you will feel more confident in exploiting the technology and presenting the open source way to others in your organisation. Who knows, they might even join you in that journey...
Facebook, a social network innovator and open source supporter?
06 September 2011
Social networking is not a new concept. If described as the human interaction based on a common interest, one could site it as far back as the early tribe or clan days. However, the meaning of it has evolved over its lifetime, and I reckon it is now irreversibly synonymous with some form of Internet-based media.
Linux 3.0 is here
26 July 2011
Last major release of Linux (at least in terms of numbering) goes back several years. Coinciding with the Linux’s 20th birthday, on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:59:53, Linus has announced:
“So there it is. Gone are the 2.6.
HP backs Linux
14 February 2011
The battle for the operating system dominance is on. Jim Zemlin of Linux Foundation reports from the HP press conference, where HP announced their mobile market strategy, but also made some surprising declaration regarding their PC operating system.
How did Ubuntu achieve 10-15 second boot time ?
12 August 2010
Fact: Ubuntu 10.04 boots significantly faster than any other desktop/laptop OS I have ever used. On the same machine (Asus), boot time went from about 75 seconds to less than 30. My Lenovo X201 takes approximately 25 seconds to go through full reboot cycle. How come? Scott of Canonical, explained at LINUXCON.
Linuxcon 2010 – Wim Coekaerts on Linux
11 August 2010
Linuxcon, the conference organised by Linux Foundation, started today, with the keynotes from Jim Zemlin, who introduced the event and its sponsors. This was followed by “A technical Look at Linux at Oracle” talk from Wim Coekaerts, Senior Vice President, Linux and Virtualization Enginering, Oracle Corporation
Creation time in Unix? Yes – in ext4
14 July 2010
One of the most popular questions in a UNIX class is: why doesn’t UNIX store file creation time? Well, in ext4 it does . The ext4 file system has now been available for a while, but so far Ubuntu is the only distribution installing it by default.
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