Operating systems and GNU Linux

Reading the recent discussions about GNOME's position in the GNU Project, I'm reminded of Utah Phillip's comment that "a long memory is the most radical notion in history." The way that the discussion has been reported in the media, you would hardly guess that the discussion is the latest round in an ongoing and disquieting dispute -- largely because the origins of the dispute were never widely reported. The current discussion began on the...  

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nixCraft: "The sar command collect, report, or save UNIX / Linux system activity information. It will save selected counters in the operating system to the /var/log/sa/sadd file. From the collected data, you get lots of information about your server:"  

Miscellaneous News: "Let's start this week's news section with a link to an interesting article published recently at TuxRadar. Entitled "Get the best KDE Linux distro", it evaluates some of the more interesting KDE-centric distributions"  

The ssh program allows you to securely access systems across the network. By default ssh prompts you for your password on the remote system. If you setup a secure key you can skip the password prompts. For instance: $ ssh lefty.soaustin.net uname -a Linux lefty.soaustin.net 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 01:27:18 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux In this example I ran the uname command on the remote system lefty.soaustin.net. Since I've setup a secure...  

bobsced0$ gcc -g -o prog ss.c bobsced0$ ./prog File size is:906984 Segmentation fault bobsced0$ gdb prog GNU gdb 6.8 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change...  

Dana Gardner submits:If you’re a Microsoft (MSFT) investor looking for good news wherever you can find it, it looks to me like Windows-based-server shipments from the factory - as measured by worldwide revenue - surpassed Unix/Linux-box shipments for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2009. I’ve only been looking at these quarterly IDC's findings since 2006 but I doubt if Windows surpassed Unix/Linux in years before I started watching...  

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totalinux.org: The Debian GNU/Linux project is looking at a development freeze in March. Earlier this year, the owner of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, had proposed that Debian sync releases with Ubuntu so that the work could be spread. Advertisement: read more  

reddevil62-techhead.blogspot: With so many exciting new Linux distributions being released in the annual autumnal rush, you might wonder why I chose Mandriva 2010 (http://www2.mandriva.com/) to get back into the swing of Linux things. Mandriva 2010 has gone a long way toward changing my mind about KDE 4. Advertisement: read more  

Novell adds debugger to Mono to help Windows apps get to LinuxSan Francisco ChronicleIn addition, Novell is integrating its Suse Studio Online, which lets users build custom distributions of Linux so they can package their applications on an ...New tool aids .Net developers in writing Linux, Mac OS X appsZDNet (blog)Visual Studio gets Linux dose with MonoRegisterNovell Delivers First Commercial Solution to Build .NET Applications for Linux...  

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