Linux

Ubuntu 6.06 The Dapper Drake was released today and is available for download. They will also mail you installation cds free of charge if you'd prefer not to download the 700 MB file.

http://www.ubuntu.com/Welcome

IU Researches will gain access to IU's new supercomputer this summer and fall. The system, which is the nation's most powerful university-owned supercomputer and largest disk-based storage facility, will support IU research into new discoveries in informatics, the sciences and the humanities.

The supercomputer features a new distributed shared-memory cluster, called Draco, consisting of 512 IBM JS21 Bladeservers, each with two dual-core PowerPC 970MP processors, connected via gigabit ethernet to a 200 TB GPFS filesystem. Batch jobs will be managed with IBM's Loadleveler and the Moab Workload Manager. The new system will run Linux, and most users should have no difficulty recompiling codes that they have used on AVIDD. More processing power is also being added to the Libra cluster that will facilitate large memory jobs with access to an additional 50TB volume.

One particularly distraught new Linux user came to me and shared how his meeting with a number of Linux "pros" turned to a bash Windows, bash him and bash everything he said gathering. Instead of answering his question regarding which GUI they prefer to use on their systems, the response was a clear: "you ignoramous! Go back to your Windows."

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Someone has achieved the record of having a grub menu booting 100+ systems of Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris .
In this thread he explains how to set up your machine, incuding GRUB, to boot 100 different flavours of various operating systems.

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