28 articles tagged "operating system"

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Linus Torvalds on Linux Desktop Operating System
Don Reisinger wonders - if Linus Torvalds even speaking for Linux anymore:
Even though Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux, lately he has been quite outspoken about where he thinks his operating system is going and what its competitors are doing wrong.
Wired blog has published Linus Torvalds [...]
Upgrading Ubuntu Linux 7.04 to Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
Yup, the latest, greatest and cutting edge Ubuntu Linux 7.10 is here.. I’m upgrading my box
Type the following command to start upgrade procedure:
$ sudo update-manager -c -d

Just follow on screen instructions. Refer upgrading from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 for more information.
I’m just going to open full up 2mbps pipe for my [...]
Howto Make Script More Portable With #!/usr/bin/env As a Shebang
You may have noticed that most shell and perl script starts with the following line:
#!/bin/bash
OR
#!/usr/bin/perl
It is called a shebang. It consists of a number sign and an exclamation point character (#!), followed by the full path to the interpreter such as /bin/bash. All scripts under UNIX and Linux execute using the interpreter specified on [...]
PC-BSD review
PC-BSD is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD.
The main aim is to be easy to install programs by using a graphical installation program, KDE - pre-installed graphical user interface.
PC-BSD does not use ports style package management, instead it use .pbi files. You can just double click on .pbi file to start [...]
How to: Flashing your system BIOS under Linux
BIOS is Basic Input/Output System or Basic Integrated Operating System used by computer when you switch on computer.
Most of you may aware that the main function of BIOS is to prepare the system hardware so other software programs stored on hard disk can load, execute the stuff.
BIOS updates are critical for Linux server. In [...]
Re-read the partition table without rebooting Linux system
If you are using hot swappable hard disk and created new partition using fdisk then you need to reboot Linux based system to get partition recognized. Without reboot you will NOT able to create filesystem on your newly created or modified partitions with the mke2fs command.
However with partprobe command you should able to [...]
Use Crontab Command With sys account
Explains how to use Crontab Command With sys account and EDITOR variable.
FreeBSD Load Device Driver / Kernel Module
Under FreeBSD operating system you need to use the kldload utility to load file.ko into the kernel using the kernel linker. You can find all loadable kernel drivers in in /boot/kernel or /boot/modules/ directory. Some modules (pf, ipfw, ipf, etc.) may be automatically loaded at boot time when the corresponding /etc/rc.conf statement [...]