Linux-Development-Sys Digest #622
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #622, Volume #8 Mon, 9 Apr 01 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output (Andrew Purugganan)
Custom install CDs ("Kris Kelley")
Re: usleep() is unreliable when sleeping for less then 1 micro
Linux on Xbox? (Hermann Samso)
And Linux for Playstation 2, Cube, etc? (Hermann Samso)
A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Hermann Samso)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? ("Norm Dresner")
Re: Custom install CDs ("Norm Dresner")
Re: how to modify dynamic lib ? ("Norm Dresner")
Re: LinuxThreads and thread-safety, re-entrancy, async-safety! ("Norman Black")
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Grant Edwards)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (paul beard)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Uwe Bonnes)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Timo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=F6ckigt?=)
Re: TCP/IP socket buffering (Greg Copeland)
Re: cpu scheduling problem (Greg Copeland)
Re: Need your recommendation for a full-featured text editor ("Dan Miller")
Re: how to modify dynamic lib ? (Jonathan Buzzard)
Re: Need your recommendation for a full-featured text editor (Dave Martel)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Mike Fleetwood)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output
Date: 9 Apr 2001 18:18:53 GMT
Paul Haley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ I'm running Redhat 6.2 and would like to suppress the output on bootup, such
[ as "Loading cron. [OK]", etc. All I want is to have lilo say "loading
[ linux" and then give me a login prompt, though of course I still want all
[ the programs/processes to run, I just don't want them to output to the
[ screen. I checked out the init scripts and nothing jumped out at me.
[ Can somebody help?
There is also the lpp (load progress patch?) which shows a status bar of
the boot process along with the splash screen or graphic of your choice.
It's on freshmeat.net, and I know there are several nice themes available
e.g. Trinity from the Matrix, Tux, Suse or Debian or other distro logos.
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jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: "Kris Kelley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Custom install CDs
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 13:36:12 -0500
I have put together a customized linux operating system that I would like to
turn into a distribution. I need some pointers on learning how to create a
custom linux install CD. This CD needs to be compatable across a wide
variety of hardware; the more systems it can install onto, the better.
I have made a list of what the install CD should do: detect, format, and
partition the hard drive, copy over the relevant software, then run a script
to perform the necessary customizations. I am largely unfamiliar with the
specifics each step would require; for example, I know to use fdisk and
mke2fs to partition and format a hard drive, but I don't know what is used
to search for and detect available hard drives. I will be very grateful for
leads on documentation, web sites, etc., on how to produce this install CD.
Sorry to sound like a clueless newbie, but in this case, I pretty much am.
Thanks.
---Kris Kelley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: usleep() is unreliable when sleeping for less then 1 micro
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:20:33 -
In article 9asn3n$3p6$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pasztor Szilard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the process is scheduled under a real-time policy like
SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR, then pauses of up to 2 ms will be
performed as busy waits with microsecond precision.
No matter if it's realtime priority, it won't get the cpu back until the
scheduler has provided the deserved jiffy.
You didn't see the part about busy waits?
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http://www.spinics.net/linux/
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From: Hermann Samso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux on Xbox?
Date: 9 Apr 2001 19:44:26 GMT
Has anyone an idea if linux will/won't run on
Microsoft's Xbox game console?
BTW, does this machine have any ports for keyboard,
mouse, etc?
saludos,
SoLo2
Just superseding (don't know the difference to normal
crossposting, really) this article to 2 other linux groups...
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From: Hermann Samso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: And Linux for Playstation 2, Cube, etc?
Date: 9 Apr 2001 19:47:14 GMT
Following the same line...
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Linux-Development-Sys Digest #622
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #622, Volume #7 Fri, 25 Feb 00 00:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Want to work with OSS for a living? (MA) (YtRabbit)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Linux and DVD ("Shazam")
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking?
Looking for a decent development environment ("Lord Petrosky")
RedHat 6.0 ("Sake")
TCP/IP socket from kernel ("Sake")
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Colin Watson)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Albert Ulmer)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Can a previous handler be saved when requesting an IRQ? (Luis Miguel Pinho)
Re: Looking for a decent development environment (Grant Edwards)
Re: IP adresses not resolved - gethostbyname failed (Thomas F. Drescher)
Re: Does linux support DIRECT I/O? (Hong Shen)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Looking for a decent development environment ("Lord Petrosky")
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Q: How good is Linux when the computer is suddenly loses power ? (Miguel Cruz)
Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking? (Kaz Kylheku)
From: YtRabbit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Want to work with OSS for a living? (MA)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:21:53 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], mlw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently working at a net service company. We need "web guys" you
should know some C/C++, but mostly we need UNUX Admin (Freebsd), Apache,
PHP, Perl, and the ability to rip apart poorly written (app generated)
customer HTML, and make it pretty, functional, and problem free.
Reply to my e-mail directly.
Sorry to post this on the discussion groups, but we have been looking
for people for months and the normal channels are not working, and this
is a form of advocacy, right?
The company is in Westborough Massachusetts.
I'd love to, and I have the qualifications, but I live on Long Island, NY, and I just
got back from a 2 year stint in the Twin Cities; besides, the Mrs. is fed up with the
nomadic lifestyle. I'll pass on the word to the few qualified people I know in your
neck of the woods
'nuff said,
YtRabbit.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking?
Date: 25 Feb 2000 00:57:40 GMT
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:52:47 +0100, Mario Klebsch wrote:
Craig Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Windows plattforms have at least ABIs in common, like the win32
ABI.
And what on earth is an "ABI" ?
BTW, Windows did the same with supporting the win16 ABI on Win9x.
But in Linux, there is no ABI, and this is the problem.
You gave no idea what you are talking about. The KDE and GNOME projects
are primarily about APIs. There is the QT/KDE API on Linux. This ships
with all distributions, as does GTK/GNOME.
So yes, in short, there are development tools on Linux that do the
same thing for Linux developers that MFC does for Windows developers.
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Donovan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Binary compatibility: what kind of crack are they smoking?
Date: 25 Feb 2000 01:03:10 GMT
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:42:33 +0100, Mario Klebsch wrote:
Craig Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So if Linux will not be an OS, there sould be at least a way to define
the ABI of the linux versions, and the build process of the individual
libraries should be modified to guarantee, that the specified
interface is implemented by the libarary.
If you're trying to say that the distributors
should standardise on core shared library versions, I agree.
Unfortunately, it's near impossible to get them to agree on *anything*,
and the result is that the attempt to standardise things, LSB, fell flat
on its face.
At this stage, this does not appear to be a major setback. The application
developer can simply require versions (x,y,z) of the appropriate shared
libraries and ship them with the application. No, this is not the most
efficient solution , indeed it's almost as bad as static linking. But
with large applications like office suites, the overhead of loading an extra
libc is kind of small in the big scheme of things.
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Donovan
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #622
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #622, Volume #6 Tue, 13 Apr 99 23:14:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux Servers, what to buy? (Christopher Browne)
Red Hat 5.2 RAMDISK questions ("Jeremiah Daniels")
Re: What is ia32? (Christopher Browne)
dev_tint, dev-family, dev-pa_* removed when? (Timothy J. Lee)
memcpy_tofs(), memcpy_fromfs() (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: Help on programming (Gary Momarison)
Re: Why is my process consuming system time? (Rob Komar)
Re: M-systems binary only drivers GPL (Peter Samuelson)
Re: Running process without control terminal (Peter Samuelson)
Re: Win32 support in Linux (Harald Arnesen)
Re: clone() creates zombies ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Serial console problems, need help (accoday)
Re: profiling a dynamic library (Aurel Balmosan)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Rick Ansell)
Alpha Driver ("Sam Fineberg")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Linux Servers, what to buy?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:47:39 GMT
On 12 Apr 1999 14:29:40 PST, Don Baccus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Mayberry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone has some other suggestions for an economical
Linux server please respond! =)
check out http://www.tdl.com/~netex. This is the web page
of a custom system builder (most Intel, it appears these
days, but also Alpha based and in the past at least Sun).
They sell 'em with Linux or (if you make them) NT.
Their web page is a great resource for folks exploring
hardware options. They list typical suggested configurations,
but the site's far more useful than this. For each configuration,
they list each component in exhaustive detail (including the
brand of exhaust fan). Each component is actually a hyperlink
to a separate page that lists a suite of other components,
with their editorial comments about their view of the tradeoffs
involved with each.
Very, very interesting web site. I've not bought from them; they seem
to have more useful data on performance of PC systems than any other
place I've ever seen.
So, for instance, if you check out their sample PII/PIII workstation
you'll find they suggest an ASUS motherboard with onboard UWII.
Click on the motherboard, and you can explore motherboards from
ASUS or other manufacturers with, say, no UWII, etc etc.
At this level, click on the ASUS board description and they
send you to the ASUS site.
They do this for every component, so you can quickly poke
around and see why they make the choices they do, and
what alternative choices they think are reasonable.
This "metainformation" on "how to choose" is *really* valuable. I don't
know that they're always right, but there is some really insightful
information, for sure.
They also have a lot of information on Intel, for
instance a history of different chip introductions
of various cpus and clock speeds, graphs of past
price trends (and predictions of future trends), tech
info on various cpus, that kind of thing.
They often seem to be pretty down on non-Intel CPUs; many of the
arguments they make seem quite persuasive.
I might think it a "really cool idea" to get a system based on a 250 MHz
StrongARM; the fact that systems integrators haven't gotten excited
enough about that CPU (or MIPS, or SPARC, or PPC) for there to be a
richly diverse set of motherboards and other support hardware for such
things means that they are rather "nichey" choices with severe danger of
being too expensive and of being outclassed by the "next generation" of
whatever Intel spews onto the market.
I've got quite a number of other links to VARS at the URL below...
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"I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of
mice vs. trackballs...It was very silly." (By Matt Welsh)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxvars.html
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From: "Jeremiah Daniels" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Red Hat 5.2 RAMDISK questions
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:16:52 -0700
Hello I am trying to find out how o make a Linux bootdisk that does not load
RAMDISK at all. The system only has 4 megs of ram and cant handle RAMDISK.
PLEASE HELP IMM!!
Jeremiah
Cybertribe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: What is ia32?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 23:47:23 GMT
On 12 Apr 1999 14:58:49 +0200, Urs Thuermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aki M Laukkanen) writes:
This leads me thinking that they were mostly bug fixing although I
didn't follow ia32 kernel development at that time.
That's thwe second time I read this term. What is ia32?
Intel Architecture, 32 bit.
It is a more accurate way of providing an identifier encompassing the
various associated CPUs than the "x86
