Learn how to use inotify functions for a simple monitoring app. Download the sample code and Use inotify when you need efficient, fine-grained, asynchronous monitoring of Linux file system events. Use it for user-space monitoring for security, performance, or other purposes.
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Learn inotify efficient Linux file system event-monitoring in the 2.6 kernel
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Ninja - Privilege escalation detection system for GNU/Linux
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Ninja is a privilege escalation detection and prevention system for GNU/Linux hosts.
Read more »Netlive: an interesting alternative to the Linux Terminal Server Project
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Netlive is a slightly unusual distribution developed in Italy: a live version of Linux that makes available on demand any other live version of Linux chosen by its administrators to all the computers of its local network.
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Linux Kernel Devs: We Need New Blood
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The Linux kernel development team is turning into a gaggle of geezers. Where is the next generation of Linux kernel developers?
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.34 (Part 1) - Network Support
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Expected for release in May, Linux kernel version 2.6.34 contains several new network drivers and various advancements designed to improve network performance or increase network configuration flexibility, which will particularly impact virtualisation
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Red Hat Converts C# Code to Java While Apple Outright Rejects C#
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Very encouraging new signs that Mono/C#, Flash, and Silver Lie are being buried in an age of standards and resentment against software patents
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GCC 4.5 release series
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GCC now requires the MPC library, obsolete architectures support removed, many optimization features, standart conformance, much better parallelization support, debugging, plugins support.
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Linux File Systems
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LINUX FILE SYSTEMS are an essential operating system resource. Modern file systems and disk drive technology are robust and reliable — so, most administrators put little effort into planning or worrying about them once the operating system is configured. This makes me both smile and cringe.
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Chrooted Drop Bear HowTo
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This tutorial is being written to help you install Drop Bear to a chroot environment. Drop Bear is a relatively small SSH 2 server and client. It is an alternative lightweight program for openssh and it is designed for environments with low memory and processor resources, such as embedded systems.
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A Sneak Peak At the Black Box Inside Your Phone
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Cellular telephony seems to be the biggest network implementation (bigger than the Internet in means of user base) that has been surprisingly closed to inspection and experimentation despite its age. Lately, I've started actively getting informed about GSM network protocols and their free implementations such as OpenBTS and OpenBSC.
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ZFS 24 Support via (pygrub & fsimage.iso) patch for Xen 4.0 Dom0 (pvops 2.6.32.11) on top of F12
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Finally Mark Jonson submitted to xen-devel mailing list patch for ZFS 24 support at Xen 4.0. Patch mentioned bellow was successfully tested at Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.11 on top of Fedora 12 via modifying Michael’s Young xen-4.0.0.7.fc12.src.rpm and direct patching xen 4.0 official tarball on Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server.
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Python 2.7 beta 1 released
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Due to arrive in June 2010, Python 2.7 has now reached its first beta. Python 2.7 is planned to be the last major edition of the Python 2.x series before it goes into "bug fix mode".
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GNUmed 0.7.0 released
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This release features a rather unexpected new functionality: visual progress notes. Those are sketches/images (such as visual markers onto templates or clinical photographs) standing side by side with the clinical narrative of any given encounter.
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Autonomously Generating An Ideal Kernel Configuration
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While most Linux users are fine with just using the kernel supplied by their distribution vendor, there are some enthusiasts and professional users who end up tweaking their kernel configuration extensively for their needs, particularly if they are within a corporate environment where the very best performance and reliability is demanded for a particular workload.
Read more »ATI's Gallium3D Driver Is Still Playing Catch-Up
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Yesterday we delivered benchmarks showing how the open-source ATI Radeon graphics driver stack in Ubuntu 10.04 is comparing to older releases of the proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux driver. Sadly, the latest open-source ATI driver still is no match even for a two or four-year-old proprietary driver from ATI/AMD, but that is with the classic Mesa DRI driver.
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