This post summarizes Linux Kernel new features, bugfixes and changes in Linux 4.9.60 Release. Linux 4.9.60 Release contains 24 changes, patches or new features. In total, there are 64,224 lines of Linux source code changed/added in Linux 4.9.60 release compared to Linux 4.9 release. To view the source code of Linux 4.9.60 kernel release online,
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Release Notes For Linux v1.0
Posted onThis is the release notes for linux release v1.0 (source code: linux-1.0.tar.gz) with format adjusted by removing/replacing tabs/spaces/new lines. This notes document can give us an understanding of the early development of the Linux kernel. The original ASCII formatted version is at the end of this post. CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 15: removed all the
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Linux Kernel 4.19.70 Release
Posted onThis post summarizes new features, bugfixes and changes in Linux kernel release 4.19.70. Linux 4.19.70 Release contains 95 changes, patches or new features. In total, there are 101,521 lines of Linux source code changed/added in Linux 4.19.70 release compared to Linux 4.19 release. To view the source code of Linux 4.19.70 kernel release online, please
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How to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network?
Posted onHow to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network? The tool for Fedora to upgrade the distribution is FedUp. Check this page for how to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F Be sure to check the bugs in Fedora 20 before the upgrading: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs#Upgrade_issues Generally, it contains 3 steps: Preparation # yum
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svn: how to clean up my repository directory?
Posted onI have a local svn repository. I work in the repository, e.g. compiling latex documents and building software packages, and there are many useless temporary files there. How can I clean it up by automatically clean these temporary files like the git clean -f in git? svn seems has no built-in function for this. But
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Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 2.x)
Posted onHadoop 2 or YARN is the new version of Hadoop. It adds the yarn resource manager in addition to the HDFS and MapReduce components. Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications, which is an open-source variant of MapReduce designed and implemented by Google initially for processing and generating large data
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RAII-like Error Handling and Resource Management in C
Posted onError handling and resource management are pervasive in programs. RAII originated in C++ is great. With RAII, it is much easier to write easy-to-read code that allocats/deallocats resources in the constructor/destructors. By representing a resource with a local object, we are sure that local object’s destructor will release the resource and will not forget to
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How to Upgrade Fedora to Newer Version with Yum
Posted onThe latest tools for upgrading Fedora is FedUp, please check How to upgrade Fedora 19 to Fedora 20 through the network. Please consider PreUpgrade for upgrading Fedora. This is the recommended method. This post makes a list of actions should be done to upgrade Fedora using yum. Please note that this is for experienced users
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mrcc – A Distributed C Compiler System on MapReduce
Posted onThe mrcc project’s homepage is here: mrcc project. Abstract mrcc is an open source compilation system that uses MapReduce to distribute C code compilation across the servers of the cloud computing platform. mrcc is built to use Hadoop by default, but it is easy to port it to other could computing platforms, such as MRlite,
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