Virtualization with Xen
First Contact
About 6-7 years ago I recall my first brief foray into virtualization; it was done purely out of curiosity. The host system was my college computer, a 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon CPU running Windows XP with maybe a gig of RAM… I thought, “Surely this beast was up to the task, it could run [...]
Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Reconnaissance 2 (ROVER2)
Guest blogger Andrew Boggeri from UCLA Robotics Club discusses his team’s project, the Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Reconnaissance 2 (ROVER2). The ROVER2 competed in this year’s University Rover Challenge (URC) hosted by the Mars Society. Logic Supply helped sponsor the project by donating Mini-ITX hardware.
I want to start by thanking Logic Supply again [...]
How To: Build A Read-Only Linux System
There seem to be a lot of people out there looking to run a custom application
on a Linux-based platform running on a solid-state storage device. From time to
time, we receive questions from customers looking to make their Linux platforms
read-only in order to maximize the longevity of their flash devices. I thought
I’d take the [...]
Ubuntu 8.04.1 and the D945GCLF (Little Falls)
Although compatibility is nothing new to those who follow things closely, we have now approved the Intel D945GCLF (Little Falls) mainboard for use with Ubuntu.
The board did not originally work with Ubuntu 8.04, and as a lot of people found out, the problem was with a bug in the driver for the NIC it used. [...]
Hardy Heron Testing Complete (For Now)
So now that I’ve concluded my compatibility testing between Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and a rather large sample of our mainboards, we’re all set to start offering the option to ship systems with Hardy.
Throughout the testing, one thing I was pretty pleased with was to see some of the issues with 7.10 disappear for certain [...]