I am trying to select a new distro, having used Debian unstable for the last 7 years.

Since the global financial meltdown, I have the following observations of Debian:

I'm writing an application where I need to find disk stats in /proc/diskstats, but the only information I have to go off of is the filesystem label.

hi,
how can i boot omap3evm using usb?
can i use use usb flash drive or any pc connected through usb?

thank u

Hello friends,
is there any command in Linux to set Subnet Mask?

Thanks in advance

hi

I have two network interfaces eth0 and ppp0. I want to use ppp0 as default network interface in my computer. Note also that ppp0 has an ipv6 IP address. Any idea?

thanks in advance

I need to know what's the difference between virtual memory allocation for threads between kernels 2.6 and 2.4:

Hi everybody,

I wonder if some one could elucidate me:

My Grub stuck. It is hardware system (pc) that should start form a 128Mb Compact Flash. I copy all files from another CF that works, but even so it stuck o Grub.

The menu.Ist is as follow:

hiddenmenu
timeout 10
default 0

title VS-1_8_9
root (hd0,1)

Hello.

I have a doubt about tar. I did a backup with tar to a 1.4TB tape.
Now i need know the restore time, so im restoring a file from the begging, middle and last of the tar backup.
I see the first file is restore fast, but the prompt dont come back, the tar command still is run.
The second file, take along more, but the same, after restoring, the tar command still run.

Hi...
i want to run some other script instead of the normal login screen ....and use the output of the script for authentication.
so i need help for doing this.
can anybody tell me how can i proceed.
first
for runing my script during login
second
how can i use it for authentication
(like how the normal login does after we enter the password)

pls help..
thanks

hi
may anyone give me the good definition about udev in linux?
thanks for your guidance

Hey all,
I'm looking for some fairly technical books on various aspects of Linux. I only have 2 so far:

1) O'Reilly - Understanding the Linux Kernel
- I enjoyed the book, but much of the code-specific text was over my head.
- I got the most value from the higher-level explanation before they went into the code.

2) O'Reilly - Linux systems programming

Hi
on my server, some files when is modified, the inode is changed.
one question arises, why is inode changed?
thanks for any guidance

I was having problems with a larger app I wrote with epoll, so I tried making a smaller app to narrow down the problem. It seems that as soon as I create a socket and add it to epoll, I get the EPOLLHUP and EPOLLOUT event back. I'm expecting the EPOLLOUT event so I know when I can issue a connect(), but the HUP comes back too.

Hi,
I wanted to know the Memory Map of Kernel Module Size and Location(load map) to know the address of module insertion for kernel debugging of module in linux-2.6.2X kernels...insmod -m is not supported..

Any suggestions?Thank u ...

I just found this forum and wanted to take a couple of minutes to tell people about collectl, a tool I've been working on for over 5 years and has been Open Source for about 1-1/2 of them. One of my goals was to have a tool that could replaces just about everything else and I think I've come pretty close as this table shows.