Tag: POSIX
The First Commercial Unikernel With POSIX Support
Lynx Software Technologies has released a unikernel that it claims is the first to be POSIX compatible for real-time operation and commercially available. LynxElement...
A Beginner’s Guide To Grep: Basics And Regular Expressions
Grep is one among the system administrator's "Swiss Army knife" set of tools, and is extremely useful to search for strings and patterns in...
Developing Apps on Qt, Part 1
This article introduces application development using the Qt GUI framework.
There was a time when all desktop applications were developed from scratch. Then came the...
Light-Weight Processes: Dissecting Linux Threads
This article, aimed at Linux developers and students of computer science, explores the fundamentals of threads and their implementation in Linux with Light-Weight Processes,...
Device Drivers, Part 9: Input/Output Control in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, talks about the typical ioctl() implementation and usage in Linux.
"Get me a...
Unix-to-Linux Migration Has Come of Age
If you've often wondered whether you ought to migrate your Unix system to Linux, this article will answer your question!
The driving force behind every...
Sed Explained, Part 1
UNIX-like operating systems have numerous powerful utilities accessible via the command-line and shell-scripting, which are flexible enough to operate in a variety of problematic...
Python Threading and its Caveats
As a rapid application development language, Python is highly preferred for being easy to use, feature-rich and robust. With multi-core processors now becoming more...
Gitolite: Administer a Central Git Repository without Going Insane
Over the past few years, centralised version control systems like SVN have steadily given way to distributed systems like Git or Mercurial -- the...
CodeSport
Welcome to this month's CodeSport, in which we discuss the concept of transactional memory, with a focus on software transactional memory.
In last month's column,...
