Hardware

OpenSolaris Hardware Compatibility List ( HCL )

by on May 22, 2008 · 0 comments

The Open Solaris Hardware Compatibility List shows systems and peripherals which are compatible with the Solaris / Open Solaris OS.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Released

by on May 21, 2008 · 1 comment

Update brings broad refresh of hardware support and improved quality, combined with new features and enhancements in areas such as virtualization, desktop, networking, storage & clustering and security

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Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

by on January 24, 2008 · 29 comments

biosdecode is a command line utility to parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of. You can find out more information about your hardware such as: => IPMI Device => Type of memory and speed => Chassis Information => Temperature Probe => Cooling Device => Electrical Current [...]

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New Bulletproof X system for Linux / UNIX desktop

by on August 30, 2007 · 0 comments

I was just wondering why this feature wasn’t included in X from the day one. Ubuntu Xorg maintainer Bryce Harrington recently demonstrated the BulletProof-X feature that is planned for inclusion in Ubuntu 7.10: This specification describes a new failsafe mode that will be used if X fails to start up. It will be in a [...]

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Linux USB Pen / Stick RAID

by on July 14, 2007 · 2 comments

Tux does all sort of things including setting up a RAID on USB sticks :) From the article: This is an example of productive and practical use of a RAID. Granted, this project does not have the archaic grandeur of a Floppy Disk RAID, but then again, the capacity and performance of this system are [...]

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