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Hardware is a general term that refers to the physical artifacts of a technology.
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Here's some help to port your applications from Windows, Solaris, and OS/2 to run natively on Linux on x86-based systems. The information here also covers porting from Windows to Java and porting and...
This article addresses the most commonly encountered scenarios and errors while porting Fortran or any UNIX or Linux-based applications on different systems. Discover how to port Fortran-based High...
NetBSD and Yellow Dog Linux have both begun to support the Mac Mini. Peter Seebach looks at open source operating system options on this new contender in the embedded PowerPC platform space.
The Fink project aims to port Unix software to Mac OS X and make it easy to install. In this article, Koen Vervloesem shows you the ins and outs of Fink, with some info about how it compares to...
NetBSD and Yellow Dog Linux have both begun to support the Mac
Mini. Seebach looks at open source operating system options on
this new contender in the embedded PowerPC platform space.
We've seen how SNMP can be used to gather just about any information from a host. You can interpret this data through a wide array of programs. The most popular are cricket and mrtg. Both are...
In last week's article, we viewed a PC's BIOS partition table and its Unix partition table using the fdisk and disklabel utilities. Let's continue this week by looking at the newfs utility and inode...
Printing on a UNIX-like operating system has traditionally given headaches to even experienced sysadmins. The FreeBSD Handbook has a big section on how printers work, and it's well worth reading if...
In today's article, I'd like to continue configuring a multimedia workstation by concentrating on sound. First, I'll quickly demonstrate how to get sound working, then I'll move on to some of the...
We've spent the last few articles looking at partition tables and file systems. We've discovered that your PC finds your FreeBSD slice by reading the BIOS partition table. That FreeBSD slice has a...
So far this year, I've been concentrating on protecting your FreeBSD system by using permissions and creating firewall rules. In the next series of articles, I'd like to take a look at some of the...
Despite all the praise the FreeBSD ports system gets, it has
limitations. One of these limitations is actually related to
one of FreeBSD's other strengths -- the upgrade system. The two...
If you're a regular reader of this series, you already know that I'm a big fan of the FreeBSD ports collection. It never ceases to amaze me how over 6000 applications are a mere "make install" away....
One of the many reasons to love FreeBSD is its ports collection. Nearly 10,000 applications are available, and any installation is a mere make install clean away. In today's article, I'd like to...
In the previous article, we installed NetBSD on a HP Jornada 728 palmtop. Anyone who has worked with any BSD knows that the base operating system doesn't include many programs that most people use in...
