If you’ve ever wanted to attempt an installation of Arch Linux, now’s the time. Jack Wallen introduces you to the handy new text-based installer tool. Arch Linux is known as an operating system for ...

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, reboots once, skips ads and online accounts; local accounts are default. Most ...

Coraid’s lightweight, low-budget storage technology is establishing itself at innovative IT shops, thanks to the company’s participation in the Linux driver process. Ed Cashin, the developer behind ...

Daniel Colascione submitted some code to support processes knowing when others have terminated. Normally a process can tell when its own child processes have ended, but not unrelated processes, or at ...

Linux Mint is one of the most popular and most recommended Linux distributions for users new to Linux. We're going to walk you through the installation process step by step so you'll know exactly what ...

Creating a lock file (say, in /tmp) is a common approach. On launch, check to see if the file already exists. If it does, exit. Otherwise, create it and continue. This can lead to problems if your app ...

Process Monitor is a free utility that gives you detailed information about the processes running on your computer. It’s a powerful, configurable tool that was developed by Mark Russinovich as part of ...

Security and the Linux process In his latest entry, Dana asks whether the Linux process is insecure, because it's not possible to warn the "vendor" before warning the general public about security ...

So I have this assignment to do in college in software design patterns, I have to create a generalized pattern (factory, singleton, strategy, etc.) to cover installing an OS from scratch. I've been ...

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