Meet the Linux Family is a series of interviews with various software developers, managers, and users, who all have a point in common : they use Linux.  They will bring different point of views on various Linux related topics and share their Linux experience with you. Well, it’s now the last interview in the series [...]

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Last week, Linux Journal published a nice article about Sabayon Linux.  I’ve already used Gentoo in past, and Sabayon looks like a really good upgrade from Gentoo.  At least, the article made me want to try it.  But more than that, it made me wonder about all the “unusual” or special Linux distributions that exists, [...]

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Two weeks ago I discussed about Valgrind and strace, which are two great tools that every Linux software developer should be familiar with. If you are using or want to use strace for IO profiling, you will be interested by Strace Analyzer.  This is a Perl application which take the output of strace to provide [...]

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I’m not talking about The Skatalites song, but about two great tools you can use (and should use) when developing software for Linux : Valgrind and strace. For those who don’t know Valgrind, well, it’s never too late (as discovered by Intel’s Ylian Saint-Hilaire).  Valgrind is a framework for building dynamic analysis tools.  It came [...]

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