If a system is idle, but has a lot of application data sitting around in swap, maybe it should page some of it back in. That way, the kernel won't spend too much time paging when the applications need to run again.

Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Last week we took a tour of the generic way of building custom Linux kernels. Today we'll look some nice Debian shortcuts, and Fedora's unique way of building custom kernels.

This year's most important Linux application may be a simple utility that helps users spot long-standing bugs that make systems waste power.

I’ve recently become interested in using Ubuntu Server as the base Linux distribution for a project that I’m busy working on. My recent interest occurred when I learned that Ubuntu offered Sun Java, which I was considering using with some server software.

GNU ‘gperf’ generates perfect hash functions. If a long option shows an argument as mandatory, then it is mandatory for the equivalent short option also. Use this tutorial for effective command-line processing in your C/C++ code

Welcome to part II of this series. Here is Part I and here is Part 0. Today we will talk about scheduling unattended tasks.

The Étoilé project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.2 of the Étoilé User Environment for UNIX-like systems. The Étoilé project aims to produce a user environment for desktop and small form-factor devices, with tight integration between components. The 0.2 release is primarily targeted at developers interested in a GNUstep-based environment.