GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization.
Read this article from IBM Developer Works to find out more…
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If you want to backup any of your directories in Linux file system, you can use following command. Replace LABEL and directory to suit your needs.
mkisofs -V LABEL -r directory | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz
In Ubuntu 8.04 mkisofs command is just a symbolic link to genisoimage, the fork of mkisofs. It provides a mkisofs symlink to [...]
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If you enable Multicast/RTP Sender and set the option ’send audio from local speakers’ in above PulseAudio configuration window, it will flood the network with multicast packets when you play music in your computer. This problem has mentioned in this thread in ubuntuforums.org. Yesterday this has happened to me and it took 3 hours to [...]
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What is libusb?
libusb is a library which user level applications can used to access USB devices without worrying about the underlying operating system. Or we can see it as a high-level API which wraps low-level kernel interactions with USB modules and provide developer with the facility to implement device driver for a USB device from [...]
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Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux’s existing “suspend-to-disk” capability.
Read more from linuxdevices.com…
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inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem which monitors Linux file system operations, such as read, write, create and delete. It was included in the mainline kernel from release 2.6.13 (June 18, 2005). It is more efficient than busy polling from a corn job and it’s an extensions to Linux file system to capture the file [...]
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This is my first post from a desktop blog client. I have never used a desktop client for posting before. I used Gnome Blog tool to write this post.
In debian based Linux distributions you can use
sudo apt-get install gnome-blog
command to install this tool.
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When I start to reading Ubuntu packaging guide, I found this interesting things which can do using apt and dpkg.
apt-cache dump: lists every package in the cache. This command is especially helpful in combination with a grep pipe such as apt-cache dump | grep foo to search for packages whose names or dependencies include foo.
apt-cache [...]
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Terminator is a cross-platform terminal emulator which has support for multiple terminal windows. Users can split the terminator window vertically and horizontally to arrange terminal windows in their preferred manner. According to the creators, it is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the main focus is arranging terminals in grid.
Some of [...]
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Java and JavaScript are very different languages, although the similarity in the names and the similar C-like syntax confuses people sometimes. Let's take a look at one pretty major difference and that is how objects are created. In Java, you have classes. Then objects, a.k.a. instances, are created based on those classes. In JavaScript, there are no classes and objects are more like hash tables of key-value pairs. Then what about inheritance? OK, one step at a time.
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Typography plays major role in graphic design and most of you always search for creative fonts to use in your fonts.
10 Handwritten fonts you can't miss and
10 Awesome typewriter fonts for web designers
contains some great fonts that you can use in your designs.
I have passion about learning new programming languages. I think most of you have. 'Eight tips to start with Python' is for you if you plan to learn Python programming.
