A Practical Use Of Open Source Code Softwares

A Practical Use Of Open Source Code Softwares

Article By: Roberto Sedycias As we started the project of our web site, we knew that the proprietary software costs would be too high for our financial resources. Our only option then was to make use of Open Source Code softwares. However, within the Open Source Code there are lots of softwares to choose from, […]

DRBD, raid-1 through the net

DRBD, raid-1 through the net

You may need to have information replicated between two computers that actually are part of a cluster, in addition to”software” replica mechanisms such as Rsync you can use a product that is stable and included in the standard kernel: DRBD. DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is a distributed storage system for the GNU/Linux platform. It […]

Introduction to inotify

Introduction to inotify

inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications. It replaces an earlier facility, dnotify, which had similar goals. The original developers of inotify were John McCutchan, Robert Love and Amy Griffis. It has been included in the mainline Linux kernel […]

5 Unusual games for Linux

5 Unusual games for Linux

We often hear that there are no games on Linux, or that are much worse than their counterparts for windows, so today I want to show some unusual games that run perfectly on our favorite operating system. Caph Caph is a sandbox game, based on physics. The game target is to make contact red object […]