About Linux

Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development; its underlying source code can be freely modified, used, and redistributed by anyone.

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The Linux kernel was first released to the public on 17 September 1991, for the Intel x86 PC architecture. The kernel was augmented with system utilities and libraries from the GNU project to create a usable operating system, which later led to the alternate term GNU/Linux. Linux is now packaged for different uses in Linux distributions, which contain the sometimes modified kernel along with a variety of other software packages tailored to different requirements.

Predominantly known for its use in servers, Linux has gained the support of corporations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Novell, and is used as an operating system for a wide variety of computer hardware, including desktop computers, supercomputers, and embedded devices such as mobile phones and routers."

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  2. Symbolic links for everybody!

    Explore Article MozillaZine Weblogs (Aug 16 2010)

    ...ep in the Mozilla source code, it gets tricky. Unless you use symbolic links. Now, if you're on Linux or Macintosh, you have a built-in symbolic link command already: ln -s (source) (target). Windows ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Firefox   Linux   Microsoft

  3. Scaling Big Time with Hadoop

    Explore Article Recent Articles (Jul 29 2010)

    Scaling Big Time with Hadoop ...n shell emulator. You’ll need to have SSH installed. On OS X, SSH is installed by default, while on Linux, installing it is as simple as grabbing it from your package manager. For example, on Ubuntu: $ sud... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Linux   Mac OS   Google

  4. Synthetic Event Library Syn Aims to Make Testing Easier

    Explore Article Ajaxian (Jul 14 2010)

    ...ive - A QTP license is 5k a person! I'd rather buy a vacation. * Support - We want to test Mac and Linux browsers. We've solved all of these problems in our upcoming FuncUnit testing framework. It's a mas... (Read Full Article)

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  5. Weave, crypto, and JavaScript

    Explore Article The Mozilla Blog (Apr 26 2010)

    ...wbacks… A binary component has to be compiled for each supported platform (originally just Windows, Linux, Mac x86 and Mac PowerPC). That results in a bigger download, and makes it a pain to support new pl... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Linux   Firefox

  6. Mozilla Hackability: Firefox Nintendo Wiimote driver

    Explore Article blog.mozbox.org (Apr 14 2010)

    Mozilla Hackability: Firefox Nintendo Wiimote driver ...with the Mozilla build system. See the readme for build instructions. This extension only works for Linux as of now. I probably won't have time to port it to other platforms or to work on it further. But m... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Javascript   Linux   Firefox

  7. A Google-y Post: Angle, Native Client and Skipfish

    Explore Article Ajaxian (Mar 23 2010)

    ... to desktop OpenGL to render content. This requirement isn’t a problem on computers running OS X or Linux, where OpenGL is the primary 3D API and therefore enjoys solid support. On Windows, however, most... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Linux   Microsoft   Google

  8. Considering in-house web automation?

    Explore Article adamchristian.com (Mar 2 2010)

    ...M and then have that VM connect to your CI instance and become an available slave. It’s doable with Linux, but last I checked – the features to do something similar with Windows simply weren’t there. Also ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Safari   Linux   Firefox

  9. Brian Krausz: Building a C++ Xpcom Component in Windows

    Explore Article Nerdlife (Feb 7 2010)

    ... generator. This is a unique (read: random) ID that identifies your app to the world. Windows and Linux have tools to generate this (guidgen & uuidgen, respectively), or you can find various online gener... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Javascript   Netscape   Firefox

  10. Layers: Cross-Platform Acceleration

    Explore Article Bas Schouten (Jan 18 2010)

    Layers: Cross-Platform Acceleration ...ut also OpenGL. This means that we hope this to provide a performance increase for users on Mac and Linux as well. So what are these layers? Essentially, they're just that, layers. Normally a website will... (Read Full Article)

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  11. The importance of placement of HTML elements in a document

    Explore Article Marco’s accessibility blog (Oct 7 2009)

    ... Windows, this is at the end of the virtual buffer, even below the copyright notice or the like. On Linux and the Mac, one also has to use navigational methods to get to the end of the rendered content (fo... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Javascript   Linux   Firefox

  12. Why should you care about the Open Web, part 2: Open Web as game development platform

    Explore Article Not The User’s Fault (Sep 15 2009)

    ...n project, I don’t have the resources to maintain parallel Mac and Windows versions. And what about Linux users? I could write my game using a cross-platform graphics/sound/UI library — for instance, I cou... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Javascript   Adobe   Apple

  13. Git: Your New Best Friend

    Explore Article Recent Articles (Aug 24 2009)

    Git: Your New Best Friend ...eak) and it is usually located in a directory called .git. In UNIX-style systems (like Mac OS X and Linux) names that begin with a . are hidden by default so the repo is usually invisible during normal wor... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mac OS   Linux

  14. Assembly "hello, world" for OS X

    Explore Article peter.michaux.ca (Aug 8 2009)

    ... doesn't come until page 228 after long, interesting discussions of hardware and memory models. The Linux version of "hello, world" doesn't come until page 469 — almost the end of the book! Duntemann's bo... (Read Full Article)

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  15. Get Shorty: Trim the Fat with ColdFusion

    Explore Article SitePoint (Aug 5 2009)

    Get Shorty: Trim the Fat with ColdFusion ...sion Builder betas and install them on your development machine. ColdFusion 9 is also available for Linux, and it is possible (with some tweaking) to install ColdFusion Builder—see this tutorial at Compoun... (Read Full Article)

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  16. Testing Graphics Hardware Acceleration

    Explore Article Water on Rock (Jul 2 2009)

    ...t test suites do not have any notion of hardware accelerated versus software rendering. In fact, on Linux we run our test suites in an X virtual frame buffer, which never touches any graphics hardware. And... (Read Full Article)

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