objektif:
-menambah support terhadap sesuatu perkakasan misalnya bagi membenarkan kernel mencapai failsistem ntfs
Compile
1) download kernel baru “linux2.X.X.tar.gz”
2) mv linux2.X.X.tar.gz /usr/src/
3) tar xpvfz linux2.X.X.tar.gz
4) cd linux2.X.X
5) make mrproper
6) make xconfig
6) make dep
7) make clean make bzImage
9) make modules
10) make modules_install
11) cd arch/i386/boot dan cp bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
12) edit /etc/lilo.conf
13) run lilo yang sudah di editkan /sbin/lilo
14) Reboot / shutdown -r now
Patch
1. letak patch-2.4.x.tar.bz2 kat /usr/src/
2. bzcat patch-2.4.x.tar.bz2 | patch -p0
3. make menuconfig (make xconfig pun bleh gak)
4. Y(untuk include) N(exclude) M(modular)
5. make dep
6. make clean
7. make bzImage
8. make modules
9. cd /lib/modules/
10. delete folder …

This morning I went to find the name of a piece of software through Add/Remove programs, only to find that there was only one category (
”All”) and there were no applications listed at all. It took me less than 10 minutes to find and implement the solution, but I shouldn’t have to deal with this stuff.
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Virtual private servers have been used for quite some time, but lately they have gained popularity and more and more people have a need for something other than shared and dedicated web-hosting services. A virtual private server is a single physical server that is split into multiple virtual servers. What this means is that the single physical server is portioned in such a way that the one server appears to be multiple servers. While this portioning of a single server has been effective for quite some time, newer software such …

Hyper-V RC1 has hit the market a few days ago. Microsoft is working on making the biggest fuzz out of their newest product as usual. Although Hyper-V RC1 is in its final stages before being released as RTM, I believe Microsoft have to spend more time on the development of Hyper-V before releasing it. Hyper-V is still lagging behind the competitors on many fronts below are only few examples of it:
* Hyper-V still does not support Live Migration, and quick migration is not a downtime free Operation. VMware & Citrix …

Well folks, it’s that time to announce a new stable Slackware release
again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.2!
Since we’ve moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and
fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware
12.2 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 12.1) and is
a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.
This Slackware edition combines Slackware’s legendary simplicity (and
close tracking of original sources), stability, and security with some
of the latest advances in Linux technology. Expect no less than the best
Slackware …

Ubuntu Server Edition enhances Java®, virtualization and system management capabilities
London, October 28, 2008: Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu® 8.10 Server Edition for free download on 30 October. In related news Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition.
Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition will be maintained for 18 months and adds significant enhancements in virtualisation, Java development and system management. This continues the project’s commitment to serve the needs of those users for whom innovation and performance are vital.
In tandem with the Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term …

There are a lot of interesting blogs out there focusing on FOSS and Linux development, even though most of them are news aggregators, some of them publishes original contents which is what I am most interested in.
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Ubuntu 8.10, the next release of the Linux distro we looked at earlier this month, will have a much-requested “DarkRoom” theme available, though the lighter Human remains the default.
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Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel was released in late 2003 and since then the developers have stuck with the 2.6.x.y version numbering. It’s been five years with the stable Linux 2.6 kernel, but a proposal has been made on the Linux kernel mailing list to change this scheme. No, a Linux 2.8 kernel isn’t secretly in the works, [...]
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Version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel has officially been released. The new version includes the ath9k wireless driver, the UBIFS filesystem for flash-based devices, and improved webcam support.
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