When I read There is commercial grade software like VMware (which does full virtualization) as opposed to open source approaches like Xen which do partial virtualization. I think, don't he know QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) ?
The sentence tells commercial apps do full virtualisation and open source ones do partial virtualization...
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A lot of people do. Two French bands that I have heard a lot abroad are Air and Daft Punk.
When I read There is commercial grade software like VMware (which does full virtualization) as opposed to open source approaches like Xen which do partial virtualization. I think, don't he know QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) ? The sentence tells commercial apps do full virtualisation and open source ones do partial virtualization...
The NX bit only works when the processor is running in the PAE mode.
This remembers me the centrino bug, with no fix intended.3 0220907.pdf but now I can only find http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/specupdt/302209 .htm which leads to a password protected PDF
PAE support is broken on the Dothan (most Centrino) CPU and no fix nor workaround is planned by Intel.
Due to this, kernel with PAE enabled (needed at least for NX support) won't boot on Dothan...
PDF used to be on http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/SPECUPDT/
Err the developpers don't know how much time it will spend to boot on your machine with your set of services activated...
Some examples on tuxmachines for the RC1 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/2551 vs http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/2569
AMD 2800+, kt400 mb, 512mb 333ddr ram, and a NVIDIA 6800.
* Boots: 20 seconds
* KDE: 12 seconds
* OpenOffice: 4 seconds
* Mozilla: 3 seconds
* Shutdown: 15 seconds
Compared to opensuse on the same machine :
* Boot up: 26 seconds
* KDE: 22 seconds
* OpenOffice: 7 seconds
* Firefox: 3 seconds (not counting loading the default Novell webpage)
* Shutdown: 20 seconds
New url for EasyUrpmi is http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/ as it's not related to PLF.