Since I work with Solaris I recently realized that there are two ways to get the popular and very common AMP functionality: either to use the software the comes with it or get get/compile your own.
The first approach often doesn’t provide the necessary version level or functionality since an operating system is not a software […]
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It’s cool, man!
October 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: OS
Heron’s penguin
May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
There are a lot of reviews of the latest Ubuntu release (codenamed Hardy Heron) so I decided to write something different, from a developer and system administrator perspective.
As a desktop system, it definitely has some flaws, just like if they were rushing to release this version: it has firefox 3 beta 5 by default (known […]
Tags: Development · Linux · OS
VX that actually Works
September 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Today we will learn about RTOS-es. Lot of people like to use this word “RTOS” but just a few knows what it actually means.
RTOS stands for Real-Time Operating System. If someone knew a little about the concept, would think it means immediate reaction for events. RTOS however is different and more:
RTOS means predictability. A response […]
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Darwin, Alpha and Pegasos
July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
No, these things aren’t competely related. And yet, they are.
What I am trying to do these days is, to compile a working Darwin system. Probably I should call it Mac OS X, that might sound familiar. It’s the open source foundation that makes OS X tick. It’s a full featured operating system itself, from […]