7,200 RPM mechanism for enterprise IT equipment and industrial applications
Tokyo, May 19, 2008 — Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has developed a new series of 2.5″ hard disk drives (HDDs) specifically designed for 24-hour continuous operation and are available in a category-leading capacity of 250 GB(1) and a rotational speed of 7,200 RPM. Sales of the new MHZ2 BK Series will start at the end of July 2008.
The MHZ2 BK Series is intended to be used in demanding environments with high-frequency access, including entry-level servers or storage systems in …

New systems based on the 450 gigabyte 15K-rpm Cheetah drives will deliver record performance, reliability, and dramatic reduction in power consumption
HANOVER, Germany-March 4, 2008-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced it will begin shipping its new Cheetah® 15K.6 hard drive this month. Designed for the world’s most demanding enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is Seagate’s highest-performance hard drive ever in a 3.5-inch form factor, with a 28% increase in sustained data transfer rates compared to previous generations. With this new performance on tap, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive remarkably consumes significantly less …

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-January 21, 2008-Strengthening its position in the growing notebook hard drive market, Seagate has announced it is currently shipping a 250GB notebook drive that delivers a compelling combination of capacity, performance and durability for mobile computing. The new Momentus® 5400.4 hard drive is part of the world’s most innovative family of notebook drives that includes the Momentus® 5400 FDE.2 hard drive, the industry’s first notebook HDD with built-in encryption and currently the most powerful security solution for mobile computing, Momentus 7200.2, a super-speedy 7200-rpm notebook drive with free-fall …

Wine is a software application which aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications against in order to port them to Unix-like systems.
The name ‘Wine’ derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator. While the name sometimes appears in the forms “WINE” and “wine”, the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form “Wine”.
The Wine developers released the first …

SUSE (pronounced /ˈsuːsə/[1], German: IPA: [ˈzuːzə]) is a major retail Linux distribution, produced in Germany and owned by Novell, Inc. SUSE is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium.
As of version 10.2 Alpha 3, the distribution is officially named openSUSE.
History
The SUSE Linux distribution was originally a German translation of Slackware Linux. The Slackware distribution (maintained by Patrick Volkerding) was initially based largely on SLS. In mid-1992, Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was founded by Peter MacDonald, and was the first comprehensive distribution to contain elements such as X …

Procedure.
The installation procedure for software that comes in tar.gz and tar.bz2 packages isn’t always the same, but usually it’s like this:
# tar xvzf package.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)
# cd package
# ./configure
# make
# make install
If you’re lucky, by issuing these simple commands you unpack, configure, compile, and install the software package and you don’t even have to know what you’re doing. However, it’s healthy to take a closer look at the installation procedure and see what these steps mean.
Unpacking.
Maybe you’ve already noticed that the package containing the source code of …

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BYO Linux 1.0 Text Version
(c) 2000, 2001 Jonathan Thorpe
Email: jon@byolinux.org
This document/howto contains precise instructions of how to Build Your Own Linux personalized distribution. A HTML and Printer friendly HTML as well as other BYO Linux Internet content may be found at: http://www.byolinux.org
Contents:

Packages required for BYO Linux
Making space
Writing Lilo.conf
Folders and files
SysVinit install
Bash install
Compiling Statically
Glibc install
Kernel install
GCC 2.95.2 Install
A few necessities
Dynamic install
Boot scripts

1)BYO LINUX: PACKAGES
In order for you to start your own Linux OS, you will have to download the Required Packages for a basic Linux system. You will also require the …