Category: Unix/Linux/*BSD
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Apple is doing amazing things with 10.5 Leopard’s multitasking….
A critical component of not only Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” but also the Cocoa/Carbon for Windows package will be new code co-developed with Intel that helps break up tasks into multiple threads — This is most interesting, if Apple are able to achieve an snappy user interface they will have an excellent chance at…
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The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen 3.0.1 on a Debian Sarge system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems, so called “virtual machines” or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). — Looks like an easier to configure and use virtual-server implementation, this type of thing is available from other projects…
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Linux Distributions – Test all of these and write a review
Check out this listing of linux screen shots! This is a huge list of linux distro’s if you are bored this Winter try them all out, I dare you! M read more | digg story
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Linux supporters fiddle while OpenSSH burns
[… Even if you don’t use OpenBSD, you’re likely to be benefiting from it unknowingly. No matter what OS you use, chances are you’re using the OpenBSD-developed OpenSSH for secure shell access to remote machines. This article asks the question: If so many are using this software, why are so few paying for it? …]…
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Graphical vi/vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial
Graphical vi/vim Cheat Sheet and Tutorial If you are like me you are quite capable within vi, well using the basics any way, moving lines around, navigating within the file, but every now and then you want to do something a little more complicated or very repedative, I tend to need to refer to a…
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How OS X Executes Applications
I must get off my backside and have a look at programming in OS X, this article should help bridge some gaps in my knowledge from Linux/Solaris aiding learning the way Darwin(OS X) does it. — ….Highly detailed article on the way OSX executes apps. “In OS X, all files containing executable code, e.g., applications,…
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AnandTech: Sun?s T2000 ?Coolthreads? Server: First Impressions and Experiences
AnandTech: Sun?s T2000 ?Coolthreads? Server: First Impressions and Experiences An interesting article regarding the T2000 from Sun running Solaris 10. (This CPU is an 8 core 32 thread processor that consumes ~ 72W). This machine even with a 1GHz CPU is still capable of keeping up (or near) to a quad core opteron server. Some…
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www.centos.org – News – CentOS in the News – It’s L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System – Stupidity Reigns Supreme
www.centos.org – News – CentOS in the News – It’s L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System I cannot believe that people this stupid ever got to managment level positions. I can understand why someone might conceieve that the default CentOS apache page were perhaps some form of hacking or spyware attempt, espeically someone who was…
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Swiftfox – Firefox Optimised (Linux)
Swiftfox Swiftfox is an unofficial release/rebundle of firefox that contains optimisations for various CPU architectures which should help make your firefox experience and speedy one! M
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kill -HUP $pid and when to use it
kill -HUP $pid sends a SIGHUP to the process with the process id $pid. This is useful for telling programs that listen for a HUP to re-read their configuration files so that you can seamlessly implement changes transparent to end users. Not all programs will re-read their config files when they recieve a SIGHUP .…