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Building a custom kernel is one of the most important rites of passage for advanced Unices users. This process, while time consuming, will provide many benefits to your system. Unlike the GENERIC kernel, which must support a wide range of hardware, a custom kernel only contains support for your PC's hardware. This has a number of benefits, such as:

• Faster boot time. Since the kernel will only probe the hardware you have on your system, the time it takes your system to boot can decrease dramatically.

Under Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 the entrypoints for libinfo are part of ncurses.

Natty

First of all , the next release of Ubuntu will change its names:

• Ubuntu Netbook Edition and Ubuntu Desktop Edition have been combined into a single Edition called simply "Ubuntu" (with no "Edition").
• Ubuntu Server Edition has been renamed to simply "Ubuntu Server" (again, the "Edition" has been dropped). 

If you want to customize a distribution to boot only on your particular computer you should be able to modify the initrd and rootfs files.

Often, at the beginning of a project, it is useful to test the devices that will be used to realize the project itself.

For hard drive and compact flash it is useful to test thei performances, so we can make use of the correct (for our project) HD or CF.

The ext2 and ext3 filesystems are very popular in the Linux world, often I receive data on pen drives formatted with this type of filesystems.

Snow Leopard doesn't have native support for these two filesystems, but it is very simple to add the management of them. It is a two step procedure:

The Canon i-sensys LBP 2900 is a fantastic laser printer, but Canon doesn't offer a strong support for Linux and Mac OS X.

In this article I'll show you how to use the Canon LBP 2900 with Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) on a Mac mini.

If, on your AspireOne 110 with Ubuntu 9.04, you kincannot see the wifi led blinking you can execute the following commands:

gg1@piccoletto:~$ sudo -s

[sudo] password for gg1: 

Hi all,

Under Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix my Aspire One has its fan always on, this generates two problems, the first one is linked to the power consumption (the fan reduce the battery autonomy) and the second one is the noise (the fan isvery noisy).

Often we look for new way to boost up our work, so we write a lot of code to perform jobs at high speed.
Sometimes the right way is the old way, specially if we need to do repetitive jobs. To do this kind of jobs we can use the xargs command, this command used in pipe with other commands can automate our jobs.
For example if we want to remove all C files from a directory and from all subdirectory recursively we can do the following: