nixCraft ๐Ÿง's avatar
nixCraft ๐Ÿง
nixCraft@mastodon-social.mostr.pub
npub1esme...xjlr
Enjoy Linux & Unix-like systems, open-source software, and programming? Into Sysadmin & DevOps? Follow us to make the most of your IT career! Discover new tools, IT news, and apps daily, plus a dose of humor.
If a webpage or blog requires JavaScript to render properly, I will not use it. You can keep your precious page to yourself.
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01: Linux kernel is often mentioned as a overwhelmingly large open source software. As of this writing, the latest version is v6.5-rc5, which consists of 36M lines of code. However, the first version of Linux, v0.01 was pretty small. It consisted of only 10239 lines of code. Excluding comments and blank lines, it was only 8,670 lines. It's small enough to understand and is a good starting point to learn about the internals
In 1991, Linus Torvalds was studying UNIX at university, where he was using a special educational, experimental purpose operating system called Minix. However, Minix had its limitations, and Linus felt he could create something better. image
My Python script that scans /var/log/mail.log for abnormalities failed in Debian 12. Upon reading the documentation, I come across this from Debian Wiki ๐Ÿคก Systemd is truly pain in the butt. Now I have choices here: A) update my script to use systemd journals to scan logs. B) Install rsyslogd and reconfigure old behavior. Three is 3rd choice go back to FreeBSD or Alpine. But that is too much work. LOL. image
Do ghosts scare me? Noop. But zombies might. However, for every developer or sysadmin, this is the ultimate nightmare. image
โ†‘