It's easy to argue that Ubuntu's success is because there's an unlimited supply of investment from its super-rich parent company, Canonical. But Linux isn't like any ordinary software stack.

A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.

In this final article we will be looking at just one design pattern. We started with the fine details of reference counting, zoomed out to look at whole data structures, and now move to the even larger perspective of designing subsystems. Like every pattern, this pattern needs a name, and our working title is "midlayer mistake". This makes it sounds more like an anti-pattern, as it appears to describe something that should be avoided. While that is valid, it is also very strongly a pattern with firm prescriptive guides. When you start seeing a "midlayer" you know you are in the target area for this pattern and it is time to see if this pattern applies and wants to guide you in a different direction.

Firefox 3.5 has been released and is available for download, the new version is faster than ever and come with many new features. See how to upgrade from firefox3.x to firefox3.5 in Linux

There are a lot of differences between Linux version 2.4 and 2.6, so first we'll cover the tuning issues that are the same in both 2.4 and 2.6. To change TCP settings in, you add the entries below to the file /etc/sysctl.conf, and then run "sysctl -p".

Linux rarely needs to be rebooted. But when it does, it's often slow to boot. Fortunately, there are ways to speed things up. Some of these methods are not terribly difficult (although some, unfortunately, are). Let's take a look.

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A detailed method of the two commands for creating users and their usage.

It is often useful in Ruby to start a sub-process to run a particular chunk of Ruby code. Perhaps you are trying to run two processes in parallel, and Ruby's green threading doesn't provide sufficient concurrency. Perhaps you are automating a set of scripts. Or perhaps you are trying to isolate some untrusted code while still getting information back from it.