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Linux Ethernet Network Device Driver – A flow of code

Topic: This document talks about working of a ethernet card device driver in a bird's eyeview. This is aimed at people who are interested in understanding what is happening inside the driver. If a system administrator understands this document, he/she can understand the scope of command line (ifconfig) and device driver, so that he/she need not to break his/her head with command line for something which can only be done with kernel device driver. This document can make an developer to underst...

Intel Core Duo outperforms AMD 64 X2

A few weeks back, after analysing various internet resources I came to conclusion that AMD 64 X2 Processors performs better than Intel Dual Core D Series Processors. But suddenly things have changed upright down. Intel has pre-released Core Duo Processors. They seem to be outperforms AMD 64 X2 in wide aspects and good margin. This is not only technically but also monetarily. But it is expected that AMD will also go for price cut by this month end. Here are the summary of benchmark testing by www...

Ubuntu 6.06 installation on Legacy PC (low RAM)

Oh, God! Thanks a lot for making me learn more on Linux! Oh, Ubuntu! Thanks a lot for giving me a stable complete system! oh, My Wife! Thanks for caring me to work over night! Oh, My child! Thanks for motivating me with your flash smile! It is a lot of pain and patience to install Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake LTS on my legacy (to some extent) machine. My machine is of PIII/192MB/20GB/Intel-D815-Chipset. The real problem of installing Dapper on this machine is due to low RAM. I was able to run ...

got a legacy machine!!!

I have got a used Intel PIII machine for my home, thanks to my guru ManiVS and Mr.Mukunthan. Though it is bit old configuration, I don't feel so, when I loaded Mepis 3.4.1 and Gentoo 2005 Linux on that. I don't feel any difference between working on PIV with 512MB RAM and this PIII with 192MB RAM. Linux is really mighty to run on old machines. That too KDE does not seem to be bloated. Here is the configuration: Intel PIII 800MHz Intel Motherboard - 815EEA based on 815 Chipset 20GB HDD + (10GB ...