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  • Linux Fu - The Kitchen Sync

    One of the great things about Linux and similar operating systems is they are configurable. If you don’t like something, there’s a great chance you can change it easily with a few entries in a file somewhere. For example, take bash — a very popular shell by any measure. If...

  • Non-Child Process Exit Notification Support

    by Zack Brown Daniel Colascione submitted some code to support processes knowing whenothers have terminated. Normally a process can tell when its own childprocesses have ended, but not unrelated processes, or at least nottrivially. Daniel’s patch created a new file in the /proc directory entryfor each process—a file called “exithand”...

  • Create your own video streaming server with Linux

    Live video streaming is incredibly popular—and it’s still growing. Platforms like Amazon’s Twitch and Google’s YouTube boast millions of users that stream and consume countless hours of live and recorded media. These services are often free to use but require you to have an account and generally hold your content...