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How should I solicit feedback from a tree maintainer for patches sent to the lkml?
I have submitted a patch to the linux kernel that has gotten several reviews and gone through a couple iterations on the mailing list. It has been ACKed and reviewed by two developers, but they say ...
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Having a fresh debian-6.0.7 installed how to make it install and consider as normal latest unstable packages (gcc, g++, etc)?
I installed debian-6.0.7 on a vm. I installed bacik stable build-essentials and clang. I want to update all its development tools to there latest, /unstable versions (gcc, g++ clang) and use tham as ...
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Prevent clashing of development version with system packages
What I mean is, I intend to work a bit on an open source project which I already have installed through my system packages. What I'm wondering is if there is a suggested workflow for managing this ...
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Installing development tools in RHEL 6
I have admin privilege on my office computer (running RHEL 6) which is connected in a network. I was trying to install development tools using the command: sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" ...
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Linux kernel development for multi core architecture
I am working on a project adapting system software like the Linux kernel. I read one paper titled "Experience on Comparison of Operating Systems Scalability on the Multi-core Architecture" that tells ...
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Comparable editor for gedit with less dependencies?
I want to leave Gnome and install awesome on debian squeeze or wheezy, but I really can't work without gedit. Is there any text editor like gedit capable of editing columns, highlighting nearly any ...
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High-latency VM-centric workstation, vs. low-latency, (but, hack-ish) configuration for Oracle 11g
tl;dr Low-latency native (i.e. VM-less) development workstation vs. higher latency VM-centric workstation?
Hey StackExchange, I'm unsure of whether or not I should be using a VM for development, as ...
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A Linux OS as Single Display Groupware
For use in extreme programming environments, the idea of single display groupware has become rather interesting.
I understand that applications need to be retooled in order to function as single ...
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Running the linux kernel and Ubuntu on custom processor
This is hardly a theoretical question as many have done this, albeit there's very little information on the underlying processes.
I'm developing a custom MIPS-based processor on which I would like to ...
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Where is the core of Unix?
I know there are a lot of questions like this, but I certain this one is rare. I am a computer programmer who wants to take on the challenge of building an operating system. I want to base it on Unix ...
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Downloading and installing KDE libraries on Kubuntu 12.04
I want to start writing some simple plasmoids. However I am unable to use K-objects in QtCreator or KDevelop. I likely do not have the required libraries / SDK. How do I install it, or if I already ...
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How can wine get windows files to be recognised by machines running linux?
How is wine actually doing to the .dll files to have them working on linux machines? Does anyone know How it works?
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Building GCC inside a chroot from source
In a previous question I asked about creating a chroot that simulates my embedded device environment. It was suggested that I build from source GCC and binutils first inside my chroot. To attempt this ...
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Entry point of linux kernel [closed]
In the linux kernel is there a file that I can start to add my code, ex. load libraries?
thanks
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Monitor directory and if a file is requested then rsync on demand
Is there a tool that monitors a certain directory and if a program tries to access a file in that directory, the program loads that file from another place transparent for any application that tries ...
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How i create application B that would be able to communicate with running application A? [closed]
I have background application A.
I want to create application B to configure application A on the fly.
So, how can I detect if A is running and send some messages to A?
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Why is there a type for process ids (pid_t), but not for file descriptors (fd)?
I see that pid_t is typedef'd in unistd.h, and file descriptors are defined to be int in fcntl.h. But since they are used in similar ways, wouldn't it make sense to have a typedef for file ...
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Good ways to host or distribute my patch for the Linux Kernel Mailing List
I have an approximately 1500 line patch for the Linux kernel - introducing a new file system.
I have lots of problems with posting a patch straight to the kernel mailing list (gmail mangles the ...
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Is using cookies from a web-browser a sane rationale for desktop application development?
I am looking at making an application that would make OpenID authentication with desktop clients easy. The rationale is to steal the cookies from the web-browser, so as to avoid having to hard-code ...
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Can Qt SDK be used for development on any Linux distro?
Fisrt of all I am a Windows developer guy but really like Linux. On Windows, Visual Studio provides an excellent IDE for C and C++ development. The only other IDE and toolkit I like is the Qt SDK and ...
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How can I install programming tools in the root directory so that they can be used by non-admin users?
I'm running OS X and for security reasons my main account does not have admin privileges. How can I install development tools in the root directory so that they can be used by all users? If this can't ...
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Where can I propose development ideas for Linux desktop?
I've got this idea for Linux desktop development which keep bugging me since a while. Now I can program a tiny bit, but it's just a hobby, so I'm not very good at it.
So I want to propose my idea ...
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Can I install “development-tools” offline? Or, how to make my CD the yum repository?
I'm looking for the "development-tools" for Fedora, but I can't find information about how/where to download it to install offline (I have no internet connection in my Fedora).
Attempt 1: There's a ...
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Is GNU PDF Library in active development?
I've been hearing about The GNU PDF Library since 2007. Since then I've been looking forward to see this tool in the wild, but four years have passed and it seems to me that this is a painfully long ...
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Finding session information about Firefox
I'm currently developing a piece of software whose functionality is dependent upon knowing the state of the current Firefox session running on the user's Ubuntu computer. The information it will need ...
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RHEL/CentOS: Installing a new version of Java, why not just change the path?
I am installing a new version of Java on a CentOS/RHEL Linux distro for a single developer to develop java.
The way I want to install on this development system is to just put the new java version ...
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How to use Linux kernel driver bind/unbind interface for USB-HID devices?
First background. I am developing a driver for Logitech game-panel devices. It's a keyboard with a screen on it. The driver is working nicely but by default the device is handled by HID. In order to ...
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IDE for large, multi-language projects (ie linux kernel)
I know the "which IDE do you guys use" question has been asked a million times. But I've never seen it asked in this context. What are some suggestions for an IDE when working on huge projects that ...
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Where might the dbus development (.h) files be for RHEL5?
A quick search from yum for dbus fails to turn up the devel related package that should provide dbus.h et al. Anybody have experience locating the relevant package? Should I just resort to getting ...
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Dump Page table layout (KERNEL CONFIG)
While configuring kernel for debugging found this option:
CONFIG_X86_PTDUMP: Export kernel
pagetable layout to userspace via
debugfs
Does this mean RAM page-table layouts ? any guides on how ...
