Posts Tagged “linux”

Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager

By | August 2, 2006

Title: Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager Author(s): Mel Gorman Published: 2004 Edition: 1st Editorial: Prentice Hall

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Linux Kernel Development

By | August 1, 2006

Title: Linux Kernel Development Author(s): Robert Love Published: 2004 Edition: 1st Editorial: Developer’s Library

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Debian, QEMU, MiNIX 3

By | April 14, 2006

Do you want to test MiNIX 3 (just for fun or duty)? ,… Using an emulator (virtual machine) is the easiest way to probe this OS.

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GNU Emacs in X Window or Xorg

By | March 25, 2006

You can change some visual characteristics of Emacs creating ~/.Xresources file (in your home directory). For example: !Change default window size Emacs.geometry: 80×60+0+0 !Change font type and size Emacs*Font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal–12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 !Disable the toolbar Emacs*toolBar: 0 !Colors Emacs.background: white Emacs.foreground: black If you want to know all the font types available in your system use xlsfonts. [...]

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Bash Shell Scripting & Progress Indicators

By | March 23, 2006

This week was the second preliminary laboratory of Operating Systems course in the PUCP. One topic I had to explain to the students was a little introduction to shell scripting.

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