Chromium OS on HP Mini: xf86-video-modesetting
When I was choosing my netbook, I knew that I will install Linux on it, so, I put attention on its hardware. Having noticed that it has an Intel videocard, […]
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/usr Merge in Gentoo
The Linux world is changing! Traditional split between /usr and / directories is given up by several distros, including Fedora and Arch. There is a comprehensive article that explains the […]
Prepare Clean GNU/Linux Images
Retrieve an installation disk, e.g. Centos 6.4: $ wget http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/Linux/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso Create an empty image: $ IMG_NAME=centos-6.4-i386 $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ${IMG_NAME}.qcow2 12G Boot with kvm. Note that you should […]
Fedora Says: “no shell: permission denied”
This weekend was very hard for my netbook. I installed three Linuxes on it: Gentoo because I love it; Ubuntu because it has good support for hardware out of the […]
SSH Public Key: More Important Than It Seems to Be
Once my colleague asked me to help her with SSH public key authentication. The symptoms are very common: you add your id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys, try to login and… ssh asks […]
Why Easytag Can Change Audacious’ Skin
I am a pedant and I like if my audiofiles have correct homogenous tags and names. I dislike missing album or artist field and filenames like “01 – Track 01”. […]
Operating Systems. Input and Output
This is the third video from a cycle devoted to system programming and operating systems. In this part, I discuss details of filesystem trees and forests. Typical file operation (open/read/write/close) […]
Introduction to OS. Part 1
This is the first video from a cycle devoted to system programming and operating systems. In this part, I describe purpose and architectures operating systems. I enumerate main historical stages […]
OpenStack EPEL: the Dependency Purgatory
When you develop a software system, you can choose any solution between two extreme approaches. Build and maintain all your dependencies. Rely on external repositories and build only your specific […]
Setting up the Keyboard in Linux
There are three levels of interpreting symbols that correspond to keys: scancode, keycode and keysym. Scancode is produced by keyboard as a series for key press or key release. Keycode […]
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