LXer: Linux-Kongress: Linux Foundation Declares OS X a Luxury Jail

Interesting quote of the person who got the stone rolling:Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin had two words to describe the article - "sensational and regrettable."Well ... Mr. Zemlin, this sensational article had its start in sensational quotes ... ... more

Published at LXer: After holding an invitation-only conference for key open-source developers and community members in each of the past two years, the Linux Foundation is expanding its events schedule to add a conference focused on a broader attendee base. In an announcement today, the San Francisco-based consortium, which sets Linux standards and works to promote the use of the open-source operating system, said it will hold an event called LinuxCon next September that will be open to anyon... more

Die Linux Foundation (LF) hat angekündigt, im nächsten Jahr mit der LinuxCon ein neues Linux-Event zu starten. Weiterlesen... ... more

Let’s say a server has a limit of 25MB RAM on each user. How can I check the amount of RAM my process uses? I assume I would use ps, but there are so many fields there. There is also a limit of 10% CPU Usage. How would I check that? I would assume it’s the CPU% field in ps, but I just want to double check. ... more

Hello, I’m writing a shell script and was wondering what the best way to have the script execute another script would be. The basics are: Script1 would ask user for a 3 digit number. Let’s say variable=250. Script1 would then ask if 250 is really the number inputted, else it would exit. Script1 would then kick off Script2, and exit to command line while Script2 continues to run in the background. I know I can run nohup ./Script2 & and the output would go to nohup.out, bu... more

Sorry for the ignorance, but Google is not helping on this one. The system is a i386 CentOS 4.5 w/ tar 1.14 on it now. I’m trying to install the new version of tar (1.19) and the only builds that they offer is tar.gz, no rpms. So I cannot find any tutorials about how to build the rpm and am wondering if anyone here knows how to do it or could post some instructions or links to a guide? Thanks ... more

I was trying to follow these instructions to install a video driver in OpenSUSE (which was unsuccessful, but that’s for another thread), and now when I start up Suse it brings me to a command line instead of the GUI. I’m guessing it’s because of some command I typed in, but I don’t know enough Linux commands to fix it. I already tried "init 5," and I even tried typing in "init 3" then "init 5," (all of which was done in root). There wasn’t ... more