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GNU GRUB – Features

GRUB is dynamically configurable. It loads its configuration at startup, allowing boot-time changes such as selecting different kernels or initial RAM disks. To this end, GRUB provides a simple, bash-like, command line interface which lets users write new boot sequences. GRUB is highly portable. It supports multiple executable formats, and is geometry translation independent. Although [...]

Thin client – History

Thin clients have their roots in multi-user systems, traditionally mainframes accessed by some sort of terminal computer. As computer graphics matured, these terminals transitioned from providing a command-line interface to a full graphical user interface, as is common on modern thin clients. The prototypical multiuser environment along these lines was Unix, and fully graphical X [...]

Remote administration – Popular software

Windows Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center and Tablet PC Editions, and Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions come with Microsoft’s Microsoft Management Console, Windows Registry Editor and various command-line utilities that may be used to administrate a remote machine. One form of remote administration is remote desktop software, and Windows [...]

Termcap – Introduction

Termcap (terminal capability) is a software library and database used on Unix-like computers. It enables programs to use display computer terminals in a device-independent manner, which greatly simplifies the process of writing portable text mode applications. Bill Joy wrote the first termcap library for the Berkeley Unix operating system; it has since been ported to [...]

BSDRadius – Introduction

BSDRadius is open source RADIUS server targeted for use in Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. While there are quite large number of Radius servers (including free) available in the world, little number of them (if any) are developed with VoIP specific needs in mind. Typical VoIP RADIUS server should be able to take high amount [...]

Wireshark – Introduction

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named Ethereal, in May 2006 the project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues. Wireshark is cross-platform, using the GTK+ widget toolkit to implement its user interface, and using pcap to capture [...]

Mono (software) – Introduction

Mono, , is a free and open source project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant, .NET-compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems. Microsoft may hold [...]

Make (software) – Modern versions

Make has gone through a number of rewrites, including a number of from-scratch variants which used the same file format and basic algorithmic principles and also provided a number of their own non-standard enhancements. Some of them are: * BSD make, which is derived from Adam de Boor’s work on a version of make capable [...]

Second Life – Technology

Second Life comprises the ”viewer” (also known as the ”client”) executing on the user’s personal computer, and several thousand servers operated by Linden Lab. Client Linden Lab provides official viewers for XP / Vista / 7, Mac OS X, and most distributions of Linux. A third-party version is available for Solaris and OpenSolaris. The viewer [...]

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard – Introduction

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the main directories and their contents in Linux operating systems. For the most part, it is a formalization and extension of the traditional BSD filesystem hierarchy. The FHS is maintained by the Free Standards Group, now the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization consisting of major software and hardware vendors, such [...]

Text user interface – TUI under Unix-like systems

In Unix-like operating systems, TUIs are often constructed using the terminal control library ”curses”, or ”ncurses”, a mostly compatible library. The advent of the ”curses” library with Berkeley Unix created a portable and stable API for which to write TUIs. The ability to talk to various text terminal types using the same interfaces led to [...]

SCO-Linux controversies – Background

At the beginning of 2003, SCO claimed that there had been “misappropriation of its UNIX System V code into Linux”. However, the company refused to identify the specific segments of code, claiming that it was a secret which they would reveal only to the court. They did say that the code could be found in [...]

BioLinux – Standard distributions with good bioinformatics support

In general, Linux distributions have a wide range of official packages available, but this does not usually include much in the way of scientific support. There are exceptions, such as those detailed below. ;Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux provides over 50 bioinformatics applications (see [http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sci-biology packages.gentoo.org] and [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/science Gentoo Science Overlay]) in the form of ebuilds, [...]

Smartphone – Operating systems

Operating systems that can be found on smartphones include Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Symbian OS (including S60 series), webOS (in Palm) and Windows Mobile. Android among others is built on top of Linux, and the iOS is derived from the BSD and NeXTSTEP operating systems, which all are related to Unix. Adapted from the Wikipedia [...]









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