FreedomYUG: Do You Really Love Yourself?
…or do you use Windows 7 Starter Edition on a netbook? Do you genuinely love and respect yourself? Or did you just agree to buy a netbook with Windows 7 Starter Edition? On…
GNOME 3 is Here!
GNOME 3, code-named ToPaZ (for Three Point Zero), was released on April 6 this year. The release has raised many questions. Can GNOME 3 maintain its dominance in the Linux world as a…
The Quick Guide to QEMU Setup
In this series of articles, we will explore the basics of QEMU, OS installation, QEMU networking and embedded system development for the ARM architecture. In this first part, let’s begin with the basics….
Kernel Debugging Using Kprobe and Jprobe
Debugging is like plumbing; it involves fixing difficult, hidden problems — so, besides the vital experience, both debuggers and plumbers must have a specialised set of tools at hand for each task. Targeted…
Layer 7 Load Balancers
Linux has proven itself as a rock-solid operating system platform for industry-leading software appliances and applications, one of which is for load-balancing. As global Internet traffic increases, it demands an increased throughput from…
Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’: What’s New?
With its extremely long release cycle (this one took two years), Debian 6.0 Squeeze was rolled out on February 6th, amidst jokes like, “See you in 12 months’ time,” and “So they finally…
KGDB with VirtualBox: Debug a Live Kernel
Debugging an application live has always been easy for application developers, but debugging a live kernel has never been a simple option for kernel developers — it involves multiple machines with serial connections….
DeleGate — A Multi-platform, Multipurpose Proxy Server
A proxy server works as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. There are various types of proxy servers. In this article, we will briefly discuss one of them,…
lighttpd & SQLite: A Lightweight Web Server and Database Platform
This article demonstrates the setting up of a lightweight Web server and database platform, using the lighttpd Web server and the SQLite database management system (DMS) instead of the LAMP stack. These two…
CRASH Your System (and Debug Kernel Panic)
Aimed at Linux kernel developers and just about anybody who would like to debug a kernel panic with the Crash utility, this article assumes readers have an understanding of the basics of the…




