I am wondering, if due to the popularity of the SSD solid state hard drives, are we going to see the end of the conventional hard disk with metal platters and read-write heads that skitter over the surface floating on a cushion of air. The SSD drives are getting better and better but do not … Read more
http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/22/download-official-redhat-linux-iso-image/ The link above is to the Redhat 6.2 Linux distribution, the first version of Linux I used. It ran very well on a Celeron 600 with 64MB of RAM and integrated graphics. Linux has come so far since it was first released, the desktop has gotten even easier to use and with the release … Read more
I think I may have posted this before, but this is a little program I am working on that writes a text string to a file. I have got it to work perfectly and it compiles without errors using gcc -Wall. /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * … Read more
Dragonfly BSD. One very secure operating system.This is running in qemu, the emulator for PC operating systems. It is a live CD and has the option to install the operating system or use the system as root. Once logged in you can use gcc and vi, all the familiar UNIX/GNU tools. I could get to … Read more
The package manager in FreeBSD 10.3 is very effective and easy to use for setting up your FreeBSD 10.3 system. Here is how to install it. type this command as root. pkgpkg This will install the pkg package management system. Then, once that has completed, type this command to update the package repositories information. pkg … Read more