At some point in the past, Unix — the progenitor of Linux — treated virtually everything as a file, and all files were created more or less equal. Programs didn’t care if a file was local, on the ...

Managing large numbers of Linux and UNIX systems takes a lot of organization, automation and careful use of technology. A significant chunk of one's time as a system administrator is spent building ...

I'm writing a program in C to write/select/read on a serial port in Linux. I have the serial port code all set up, but the problem is that I need this operation to be very fast (time is the issue here ...

This hack shows how to make a dumb terminal out of a keyboard, LCD screen, and an 8-bit microcontroller. From time to time, a portable dumb terminal can be handy for when you have to rescue a headless ...

In software development, possibly the most mystical and prestigious effort is taking dead hardware and breathing life into it—porting an operating system to a new platform—the mythical land of wizards ...

I am running ClarkConnect Linux on a VIA Epia 5000 platform for basic household file serving and, later, to host Counter-strike. The system is running headless in a corner of my home office.<BR><BR>In ...