Last night, the 2013 Microsoft Build Developer Conference started in San Francisco. The highlight of the first day is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the release of Windows 8.1 Preview . The final version will be released in November and he also mentioned that there would be over 300 updates on the new OS.Now let's summarize 10 major updates of the new OS.1. Classical desktop modeAfter getting a lot of feedback from users, Microsoft adds a new setting. Users can choose to start in classical desktop mode instead of the touch screen like in Windows 8 when the computer boots up.2. Apps auto...

1. Check the OS version and core version#uname -a#more /etc/redhat-release2. Create relative directories/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES    //Store source codes, patches, icons etc/usr/src/redhat/SPECS        //Store specs about the process of building RPM packages/usr/src/redhat/BUILD     //File after uncompressed are stored here/usr/src/redhat/RPMS     //Store the binary files built with rpmbuild/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS   //Store source code package built with rpmbuild #mkdir -p /usr/src/redhat/#cd /usr/src/redhat/...

In less than one minute, it's now possible to build the Linux kernel from source on a desktop.Besides finishing up the Phoronix Test Suite 3.6-Arendal release this weekend, on Saturday I began running some new Intel CPU benchmarks. In building the Linux 3.1 kernel for x86_64 in a default configuration (make defconfig), I've now managed to trim down the compile time to less than sixty seconds on a single-socket desktop system. Similar speeds can be achieved out of multi-socket servers and other configurations, but this is the first time I'm seeing such kernel build speeds out of a single proces...