Here are the best questions and answers I’ve seen last week : How to launch an independent process in PHP from httpd? What is the best way to handle out of memory situation in C and C++? What were the languages used for developing OSes before C was used? How to programmatically get the address [...]

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I have not forgotten the Subversion Clients Review series.  This time, I’ll take a look at Cascade from Conifer Systems. Cascade in not a simple subversion client.  The main part of it is the Cascade File System (CFS), which is used to interact with a either a Perforce, Subversion, or Alienbrain repository.  On top of [...]

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If you don’t know about GlusterFS, read that article at linux-mag.com.  While it start by talking about FUSE, it’s followed by a great detailed description of GlusterFS. For a brief overview of what GlusterFS is, from wikipedia : GlusterFS is a general purpose distributed file system for scalable storage. It aggregates various storage bricks over [...]

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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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