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A nice alternative to Distrowatch.com

I wanted to find some nice alternative to Distrowatch in order to check some distro's popularity. I found some nice google tools:

# Google's AdPlanner (site profile)

https://www.google.com/adplanner/site_profile

This one seems pretty clear and offers a lot of info on the website. Obviously, all this according …


Servidor de la Comunidad

Hosting chido, barato, de muy alta calidad, seguro y sin GUIs ni cosas que introduzcan riesgos. Todo, manejado por los mismos miembros del servidor.

Specs

El servidor de la comunidad es un servidor @ CloudSigma; con las siguientes características:

  • 4 Procesadores virtuales @ 2.3 GHz AMD
  • 2 GB de RAM
  • 15 …

Benchmarks: PHP, Perl, Python, Python3 and Ruby

Hello, guys,

It's been a while since I wrote anything in english. I want to share this simple benchmark with you. It is a simple one: print a message; followed by a number; one million times.

This is the perfect benchmark since it benchmarks the language itself. It does everything …


HowTo: Use zram on Fedora 16

Ok, this one is badly documented. Even the kernel docs are outdated.

Here's how to start using zram on Fedora 16:

# get rpmfusion: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
...

# install the staging kmod
su -c 'yum install kmod-staging'

# get zram running (aha!)
su -c 'modprobe zram zram_num_devices=4'

# define the block's …

HowTo: Appfirst with SELinux enabled

Ok, first off, I hate people that say "turn off SELinux"... man, those idiots might as well tell you to turn off your firewall and open up your servers to the world.

This sounds like a nice gesture but, in today's internet, it's a shortcut to online suicide.

Anyway, here's …