This tutorial gives you techniques for covering your back in the worst-case scenario. Even new, high-quality hard drives will occasionally fail. Regular system backups are essential, especially for busy developers who make continual improvements to their code. This tutorial shows you how to protect yourself from losing huge amounts of critical data.
The IBM Developer Kit for Linux®, Java™ 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3 is a development kit and runtime environment that contains IBM's just-in-time compiler, enhanced with a unique Mixed Mode Interpreter and a re-engineered Java 2 virtual machine. Like earlier IBM Java versions, the IBM Developer Kit for Linux passes Sun's Java compatibility test and provides stability and performance when you deploy your enterprise e-business applications.
Got a handle on threads? Systems-programming guru unravels the mysteries surrounding process and thread management in Linux and Windows. This colum focuses on socket programming and performance within a single system.
With the 2.4 release of Linux come many new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. These filesystems sound cool, but what exactly can they do, what are they good at, and exactly how do you go about safely using them in a production Linux environment? This article answers these questions by showing you how to set up these new advanced filesystems under Linux 2.4.
Use the hints and tips in this paper as a roadmap on how you can port applications to Linux. It shows how easy it can be to port from one Linux platform to another, using zSeries as an example.
KernelTrap has spoken with Linux kernel hacker, Andrew Morton. His contributions cover a wide range of kernel components, including ext3 on the 2.4 kernel and the low-latency patch. Find the interview here.
Source: Bit Keeper
Robert Love's now-famous preempt Linux Kernel patch has finally been integrated into the main tree. Quoth rml: "I removed all the sched.h dependencies and this reduced the size of the patch greatly. I now use current_thread_info() and none of the header or include hackery from before. I've tested this with and withot preemption enabled with success.
Source: Drug Discovery Online
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