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POSIX Parallel Programming, Part 3: Threads

In the conclusion of his parallel programming series, David Chisnall looks at using threads. Threads are not a traditional way of achieving parallelism on...

Backup and Restore Linux Partitions Using Partimag

david writes "Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can...

FreeNAS makes it easy to add storage to home networks

Author: Joe Barr FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. (It also happens to be January's Project of...

SCO faces new setback in IBM case

Things have not been going well for SCO of late, and yesterday the provider of Unix products and services faced another body blow when...

Disk-based network backups with BackupPC

Casey Woods writes "BackupPC is a superbly designed and documented disk-based backup application that runs on Linux and FreeBSD platforms. It allows an...

Two tools for building third-party installers

Author: Bruce Byfield Bitrock's InstallBuilder and Macrovision's Install Anywhere Enterprise edition are tools for building third-party software installers. InstallBuilder uses Qt widgets, while Install Anywhere...

FreeBSD 6.2: Polished, More Stable

FreeBSD 6.2, one of the most popular versions of the free BSD Unix operating system, is out with new features and updates. It plugs...

SCO punts on Novell bankruptcy claim

SCO, which Novell claims is on the verge of bankruptcy, had less than $13m at the close of its Q4, less than half the...

Samba share permissions simplified

Anonymous Reader writes "Samba software, is a free, open source implementation of networking protocols to share files between UNIX/Linux and Windows computers. There are many...

Save time with text editing one-liners

BlueVoodoo writes "Text-editing operations are normally done interactively, inside a text editor application. Some tasks, however, can be accomplished quickly and easily, right from...