CentOS community annouced the availability of CentOS-5.4 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures this week. It’s based on the upstream release Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.4.0 and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. This is just an announcement email, not the release notes. [...]

Perl 5.11.0 was released yesterday (02/Oct/2009) , as well as a schedule for future 5.11.x releases. As a DEVELOPMENT release, Jesse Vincent encouraged testing of the new version, saying, “If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you test your software against development [...]

Following the adoption of Btrfs and SquashFS in Linux 2.6.29, the kernel development team have once more integrated two new file systems into 2.6.30 in the form of NILFS and EXOFS. NILFS is a new log-structured file system that dramatically improves write performance. (function(d, s, id) { var js, [...]

A lot of blogging and follow-up discussion ensued with the announcement that IE8 supports six connections per host. The blogs I saw: IE8: The Performance Implications IE8 speeds things up IE8: 6 Connections Per Host IE 8 and Performance Testing IE8.s Connection Parallelism IE 8 Connection Parallelism [...]

The Journaling Block Device layer (JBD) isn’t ext3 specific.  It was designed to add journaling capabilities to a block device.  The ext3 filesystem code will inform the JBD of modifications it is performing (called a transaction). The journal supports the transactions start and stop, and in [...]