There is a very fast and easy way for installing a new OS on your eeepc, without using an USB-CDROM.
It’s name is UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) and it helps you to make an USB bootable pendrive for installing any operating system you want, having (or not) the corresponding ISO cdrom bootable image.
Download your ISO image, insert your [...]
Gentoo and USE flags: how to handle them?
Are they scary?
What the official guide says is to set all the USE you need in /etc/make.conf during the installation; no much more, and this is not what in my experience I’ve come to do.
Why? USE flags are too many to take care of all of them at [...]
As discussed on the related post Starting multiple xorg sessions, could be a relatively comfortable alternative to start a new X session if you need to test some new settings without losing the current X session.
The alternative is called “xnest”. A nested X server is a session inside another session or, with other words, a [...]
There are many tools to test the effectiveness of a realtime kernel, we have chosen cyclictest, maintained by Clark Williams. This tool is only distributed via git snapshot, so we need it.
I have read around that the old MacBook Pro’s atheros AR5418 wifi card (airport extreme) does not work in linux; strange fact as I am using it right now to write this article.
The true is that this card is not supported by current madwifi drivers, 0.9.4 as I am writing, but it is in the [...]
A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS; generally pronounced as “R-toss”) is a multitasking operating system intended for real-time applications. Such applications include embedded systems (programmable thermostats, household appliance controllers), industrial robots, spacecraft, industrial control (see SCADA), and scientific research equipment.
We need how to compile a kernel, like thru this guide.
For our task, we need the kernel [...]
