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main : Articles : A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:37:22[AM] UTC )
I spend most of my time teaching classes on Solaris internals, device drivers, and kernel crash dump analysis and debugging. When explaining to classes how various subsystems are implemented in Solaris, students often ask, "How does it work in Linux?" or, "In FreeBSD, it works like this, how about Solaris?" This article examines three of the basic subsystems of the kernel and compares implementation between Solaris 10, Linux 2.6, and FreeBSD 5.3.

main : Articles : An open-source shot in the arm?
Posted: ( Mon 28th Jun 2004 04:20:24[PM] UTC )
Medicine: The open-source model is a good way to produce software, as the example of Linux shows. Could the same collaborative approach now revitalise medical research too?

main : Articles : An article about Jabber
Posted: ( Thu 23rd Jan 2003 06:43:12[AM] UTC )
The author of centericq, a popular instant messaging solution for *NIX, wrote an article about his first experience with Jabber as a developer.