I’m in Gran Canaria for the next week to attend the Desktop Summit with a bunch of OTC folk. Yummy Rob has already blogged about the talks our team are giving, so I’ll just mention my talk. I was going to be sharing a slot with Marcel in his ConnMan talk and discussing my work […]
Spent some time on Sunday reading about various operating systems. Fun things learnt: 1. /proc (procfs), as a concept, originated from Plan 9. 2. Windows NT’s kernel is a microkernel, just like Minix and Hurd. Well, not just like. NT isn’t a pure microkernel, but I had no idea it even used some microkernel concepts. […]
This is what I have been working on for the last several months. More specifically, I’ve been working on this component … Now we’re open I will hopefully blog some more about my work
I’ve been a pretty lax blogger of late, well always, but nowadays I have a lot more interesting stuff to blog about and seemingly even less time to do it. The reason I’m breaking with tradition is that I spent last week at the Linux Plumbers Conference and Kristen Carlson Accardi, the conference organiser, requested […]
Packages built from source use the prefix /usr/local by default which is not set up in the in the Fedora system and library paths. The majority of the documentation on the net seems to suggest Fedora users just pass —prefix=/usr to configure scripts but this can obviously cause problems in the long term (writing over […]
