Thursday, November 15, 2012

Elementary luna beta1 non PAE live CD

I booted up the elementary luna beta1 live CD today, only to be greeted by this error:This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:paeUnable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.After fumbling around for a while, I was finally able to make my own non-PAE image. I'm not sure how well it will work for others, because the installation itself seems to install a PAE kernel, but it worked fine on my machine that was giving me the above error and doesn't support PAE (at least according to cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep...

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Elementary luna beta1 is here!

Elementary linux luna beta1 is finally here!:Hello, Luna Beta 1Don't know what elementary is? It's linux with a crisp, clean, and consistent UI (user interface) and a unified UX (user experience). It's basically everything linux should be. Read more about it at the link above, or you can check out some of my posts on elementary:http://bmaupin.wordpress.com/tag/elementary/Now stop reading this and go download ...

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

OpenLDAP mdb backend ready for production

OpenLDAP's new memory-mapped backend, mdb, is ready for production. It was first introducted over a year ago, and since then, the OpenLDAP developers (Howard Chu in particular) have put quite a bit of work into getting all of the bugs worked out. The OpenLDAP mailing lists report that several companies are deploying it in production: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201208/msg00137.html The latest version of email/collaboration software Zimbra uses the mdb backend as well: http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/OpenLDAP_Tuning_Keys_8.0#OpenLDAP_Tuning_Keys All...