Build your own supercomputer out of Raspberry Pi boards
Who says you need a few million bucks to build a supercomputer? Joshua Kiepert put together a Linux-powered Beowulf cluster with Raspberry Pi computers for less than $2,000.
View ArticleUnix: Book Review -- Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid by...
BSD -- the Berkeley Software Distribution flavor of Unix -- is alive and well and thriving on a remarkably secure system near you. And the second edition of Absolute OpenBSD (Michael W. Lucas, 2013, no...
View ArticleSpeed-up your project build without the tmpfs hassle
Running all tests in my current project takes some time. With 26 GB of free memory, why not use it for something useful? tmpfs is one way to speed up the test execution. A common approach is to work...
View ArticleFedora 19 Linux, “Schrödinger's Cat," goes beta
Fedora 18 was slow to arrive, but Fedora 19, “Schrödinger's Cat," Red Hat's latest community Linux, is on schedule.
View ArticleLinux Mint 15 “Olivia” Released – A Detailed Review and Download Links
Linux Mint 15 has been Released with the code name Olivia. Tried a quick hand on this and still exploring. Olivia was released on May 29, 2013 and will be supported until January 2014, actually Linux...
View Article10 years of defending Linux's legalities: Groklaw
A decade ago, SCO attacked Linux but it hadn't counted on running into a paralegal turned legal journalist named Pamela Jones and her Website Groklaw.
View ArticleLinks You Don't Want To Miss (May 30)
The best unix commands, new Gmail stuff, and mammoth blood.
View Article10 Interesting Unix Commands You Should Know
Following is the collection of some of the interesting unix commands which you should know. These unix commands are based on network connections, SVN, find, list, history, lsof, sudo, until, git and...
View ArticleConfigure Jetty 9 as service on Ubnutu 13
Jetty 9 is well established and wide used server. Eclipse guys had created really good distribution, which contains easy to use management script under bin directory. The script is compliant with Linux...
View ArticleLinux reaches out to hobbyist developers
Linux is largely written today by programmers working for large companies, but, keeping in touch with its roots, the Linux Foundation is offering travel expenses to the next Linux Kernel Summit for...
View ArticleThe last days of Unix
After a 30-year run in the enterprise, once-dominant server OS is getting 86ed by x86es
View ArticleSwitching from Ubuntu Unity to LXDE
Unity is just too slow. Windowing in LXDE, on the other hand, has “just worked”. The very first time I booted into it, it picked up my three monitors correctly, with no configuration. F**k you, Canonical.
View ArticleJava 7 Sockets Direct Protocol – Write Once, Run Everywhere …. and Run (Some...
Good article written by Ben D. Cotton III, about Java 7, Sockets Direct Protocol and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). It does a little review on Java's network API history, then delve into the main...
View ArticleInstall Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu
If you are new(er) to Linux, it can be frustrating trying to figure out how and where to install applications which are not included in your distro of choice, and for which there is not an entry in the...
View ArticleUsing Docker to efficiently create multiple tomcat instances
Blog about how to use Docker's VM-like solution to create multiple Tomcat instances.
View Article26 Reasons to Use Linux
Companies, academic organizations, governmental firms and various other organizations worldwide are converting their computer working systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux at an improving speed. They...
View ArticleGraying Linux developers look for new blood
The top Linux developers are getting older and The Linux Foundation is addressing the issue.
View ArticleServer monitoring shell scripts
There are many open source server monitoring software such as cacti and nagios. Besides these, can we write our own shell scripts to monitor them? The shell scripts written by ourselves can fulfill our...
View ArticleInstall Sublime Text (a Text Editor) in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu
Sublime Text is a most popular, lightweight and smart cross-platform text and source code editor with a Python API, that available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It is really an awesome application...
View ArticleNetwork programming in Linux
Look at widely used protocols on each networking layer and writing programs using them, Creating own protocol headers instead of Socket layer,Look at working with socket-layer-less environment,Detailed...
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