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How to get started with my custom entertainment system?

I am C / C++ / Java programmer. For a project at school, I would like to essentially create my own Roku box style system. It would be an entertainment system that you connect to your TV or computer ...
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Run python program from command line, see result in another window

I'm creating a simple python script that uses gphoto2 to take a photo from my usb connected camera and feh to display the photo. When I run program, gphoto2 will capture the photo and feh will open ...
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Installation from RPM, instead of making source code?

I am trying to deploy a Redis server in Linux. The Redis official site provides source code to download, so I have to use 'make' to install Radis. The 'make' works, but my problem is how can I use ...
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Is it better to learn C on linux than windows? [on hold]

It seems like most good books for learning C (like the K&R bible) teach you how to program C on a Linux environment. Like after compiling with the gcc compiler you are told to run "./a.out" and ...
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Distributing a proprietary application together with GPL software [on hold]

First, there are many similar questions here, but I found none with direct answers about this specific scenario. If you find a duplicate, please be kind enough to link to the specific answer(s). Also, ...
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Creating a custom GUI. App/DE/WM?

I am starting with this project of mine of writing a custom UI for linux. What would happen is: The computer would boot into this UI which would not be the typical taskbar/icons/startbutton kind of ...
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capture compile error and terminate bash script [migrated]

I've written a bash script which install 3 packages from source. The script is fairly simple with the ./configure, make, make install statements written thrice (after cding into the source folder). To ...
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Application qos involving priority and bandwidth

Our manager wants us to do applicaiton qos which is quite different from the well-known system qos. We have many services of three types, they have priorites, the manager wants to suspend low priority ...
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What does the “d” mean after linux packages?

I've noticed that a lot of the packages I've been installing on my Ubuntu machine has this "d" at the end. Googling it doesn't give me any answers that I can find. For example: FTP server - ...
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Web Development on Windows but on Linux Environment [closed]

I do PHP Development on WAMP but sometime it don't work properly when I upload the files to a Linux server, its involve a lot of testing and annoying. I am looking for a solution to do PHP ...
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Best way to learn “under the bonnet” Linux? [closed]

Are there any alternative methods for understanding how Linux works which don't involve just staring aimlessly at 100MB of Linux Kernel source code? Related question- is there any sort of ...
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How to programmatically turn off LED on USB? [closed]

I would like to find out how to programmatically turn off the LED on the USB flash drive. I haven't found any tutorials or good source to get to started with it. I'm willing to try to rewrite or to ...
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Seeking xinetd alternative for forking concurrent servers in Linux

I recently posted here asking about the drawbacks of having a server process bind to a dynamically assigned port. That approach came about because xinetd, which launched the server process, allocates ...
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How are the size of the stack and heap limited by the OS?

Note: if you need to consider a specific OS to be able to answer, please consider Linux. Whenever I run a program, it will be given a virtual memory space to run in, with an area for its stack and ...
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Reading CSV files located on a Linux server and updating the tables in a SQL Server database

I was wondering how we could ingest CSV files located on a Red Hat Linux server into SQL Server database tables. I know we can write a stored procedure/bulk insert to read the files that are located ...

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