Re: Common problems with Ubuntu
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:59:37PM +0300, mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: I do still have quite a few qualms with it though on other regards. I'm deep into GPU computing at the moment (Cuda) and what Windows vista and 7 did to the graphics driver model is a classic example of Microsoft's approach for world domination. The operating system is actually managing a virtual memory on the graphics card behind the graphics driver back. although designed to assure the DWM can always have enough memory, this causes a bunch of unexpected and uncontrolled performance and feature issues. What does that mean? Latest Linux version also manage the card's virtual memory. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best tzaf...@debian.org|| friend ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Common problems with Ubuntu
On Sat, 15 May 2010 08:19:03 + Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:59:37PM +0300, mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: I do still have quite a few qualms with it though on other regards. I'm deep into GPU computing at the moment (Cuda) and what Windows vista and 7 did to the graphics driver model is a classic example of Microsoft's approach for world domination. The operating system is actually managing a virtual memory on the graphics card behind the graphics driver back. although designed to assure the DWM can always have enough memory, this causes a bunch of unexpected and uncontrolled performance and feature issues. What does that mean? Latest Linux version also manage the card's virtual memory. No it doesn't. Driver manages the video card memory. On a 4GB card you can make a single 4gb allocation and when the memory runs out it runs out, allocation fails. No memory goes in and out of the card without explicitly asking the driver to do so. With Windows 7 the video driver does not see the video card memory. Windows implements a swap on the video card and swaps video memory in and out to system memory behind your back. You can over commit the card. Maximum allocation is ~1gb even when the card has 4gb, if you use too much memory performance drops suddenly. General graphic performance can be half that of Windows XP in some situations and when swapping performance can drop to under 10% of the full performance. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
virtualbox question
I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very limited. 119mb for /. If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / , kernel compilation same thing. the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no space left. Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions? I am opened to new ideas. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
sara fink wrote: I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very limited. 119mb for /. If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / , kernel compilation same thing. the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no space left. Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions? I am opened to new ideas. 2 options out of the top of my head: 1. a temporary fix: you can turn /usr/src into a symlink to another partition. 2. a permanent fix: create another (much larger) partition, and copy the original root partition to this new partition. find how to do this copy while the guest system is NOT running, and find how to tell virtualbox to use the new partition. --guy ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
At 17:29:43 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: sara fink wrote: I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very limited. 119mb for /. If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / , kernel compilation same thing. the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no space left. Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions? I am opened to new ideas. 2 options out of the top of my head: 1. a temporary fix: you can turn /usr/src into a symlink to another partition. 2. a permanent fix: create another (much larger) partition, and copy the original root partition to this new partition. find how to do this copy while the guest system is NOT running, and find how to tell virtualbox to use the new partition. --guy On a more fundamental level, why was Sara limited to the live CD, seeing that the download of the full gentoo CD is just as free as the live one? If the purpose of the virtual installation is more than a temporary experiment (which is what live versions are mostly for) might it be worthwhile to download the full version and do it right? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
any israel OLPC activities?
If so, can you direct me to mailing list or web page? Tnx M ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
Stan, it's for a temporary experiment. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: At 17:29:43 on Saturday Saturday 15 May 2010, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: sara fink wrote: I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very limited. 119mb for /. If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / , kernel compilation same thing. the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no space left. Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions? I am opened to new ideas. 2 options out of the top of my head: 1. a temporary fix: you can turn /usr/src into a symlink to another partition. 2. a permanent fix: create another (much larger) partition, and copy the original root partition to this new partition. find how to do this copy while the guest system is NOT running, and find how to tell virtualbox to use the new partition. --guy On a more fundamental level, why was Sara limited to the live CD, seeing that the download of the full gentoo CD is just as free as the live one? If the purpose of the virtual installation is more than a temporary experiment (which is what live versions are mostly for) might it be worthwhile to download the full version and do it right? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: virtualbox question
On 05/15/10 17:26, sara fink wrote: I installed gentoo in virtualbox. My problem is that with the livecd it builds a filesystem partition that is very small and I don't have control on the size. If I want to add stuff there, the space is very limited. 119mb for /. If I want to add modules to the kernel they need to sit under / , kernel compilation same thing. the /usr/src/linux is 330mb. So kernel recompilation is out of question because it will fail with no space left. Is there any way to increase the size of / ? or other solutions? I am opened to new ideas. It's been a while since I used Gentoo livecd, but what you describe sounds very strange. If there is a small partition created by Gentoo install process, it's going to be /boot, which is meant only to store kernels and grub stuff. If for some reason you really ended up with such a small / on hard drive, you can always boot off of the live CD again, and use parted to resize it. In general, if you want to get a real feel for what Gentoo is like, you are better off getting minimal install CD, and following the handbook. P.S. How is this VirtualBox question? P.P.S If you want to talk about Gentoo in real-time, I can often be found on #gentoo-he on irc.freenode.net. -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh http://www.total-knowledge.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Who is contributing to Open Source development?
Hi, do you know about any research on mapping the profile of people who are contributing to an open source project? I found an interesting report from 2008: http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/ but I'd like to know are things like correlation to - country - GDP / capita of the country - freedom of speech in the country - personal income - living in urban or rural area - ... (probably a few other things I cant think about now) Anyone with better Google fu or who remembers such research, please send me links. regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Who is contributing to Open Source development?
Did you notice that Israel has 0 rate !!!? I think we can be on 1 of the highest places (in percents)... David 2010/5/15 Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com Hi, do you know about any research on mapping the profile of people who are contributing to an open source project? I found an interesting report from 2008: http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/ but I'd like to know are things like correlation to - country - GDP / capita of the country - freedom of speech in the country - personal income - living in urban or rural area - ... (probably a few other things I cant think about now) Anyone with better Google fu or who remembers such research, please send me links. regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- בברכה, דוד רונקין ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Who is contributing to Open Source development?
David Ronkin dron...@gmail.com writes: Did you notice that Israel has 0 rate !!!? I think we can be on 1 of the highest places (in percents)... I noticed that Israel was simply not included in the survey. This does not mean that he situation here is terrible or excellent, just that the folks at Georgia Tech did not manage to find data that would be suitable for inclusion, comparable, etc. It is not even clear how hard they tried - they could have decided that 75 countries presented a good enough sample. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
