Category Archives: Linux

Fedora 14 will use upstart instead of systemd

Posted on September 22, 2010 by unni

Fedora engineering steering committee decided to use upstart instead of systemd after the prolonged IRC discussion on systemd test day. The main developer of systemd, Lennart Poettering, didn’t contribute to the discussion and wasn’t too pleased about the decision. Systemd … Continue reading →

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How to configure TechCom-SSD-TV-675 tv tuner card in Arch linux

Posted on September 21, 2010 by unni

About TechCom SSD-TV-675 INTERNAL TV TUNER The TechCom SSD-TV-675 INTERNAL TV TUNER is a cheap tuner card available in India. It uses the PHILIPS 7130 chipset and QSD-MT-S73 RF tuner. The full specification of this card is available at http://www.techcomindia.com/ … Continue reading →

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Udev: Introduction to Device Management In Modern Linux System

Posted on April 4, 2010 by unni

Modern Linux distributions are capable of identifying a hardware component which is plugged into an already-running system. There are a lot of user-friendly distributions like Ubuntu, which will automatically run specific applications like Rhythmbox when a portable device like an … Continue reading →

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Resizing the DRBD device

Posted on December 23, 2009 by unni

The DRBD is a kernel module that was merged with 2.6.33 version kernel on 8 December 2009. DRBD provides the data replication between two nodes at real time. I was experimenting with the DRBD and other HA applications and came … Continue reading →

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