Table of contents Introduction Understanding the kernel installation Kernel binary Kernel version number Kernel modules Linux boot process explained Initial ram-disk Mounting root file-system init and services init levels Services Booting Linux with broken init scripts Conclusion IntroductionBACK TO TOC I thought I’d write a few things that I do with kernel when administrating my […]

Today I finished working on a new article called “SMP affinity and proper interrupt handling in Linux”. It describes a problem encountered by many system engineers and administrators and that is how to configure the system to properly handle interrupts. This article concludes a research that I did, those purpose was to find out what […]

From some reason this topic never got enough attention in libc. POSIX threads library does addresses this issue, however what starts in POSIX library stays in POSIX library. pthread_self() and friends will get you an identifier that is unique accross your program, but not accross your system. Although thread is a system object, the system […]

I’ve been running this web-site for something like five years. Well… Not this one in particular, but many different sites with different domain names, different CMS systems, etc. I guess it started because I actually wanted to do web-designs. I started learning Photoshop back in 1997-1998, and by year 2002 became quiet proficient with it. […]