Monthly Archives: August 2006
Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora and Debian Comparison
I have installed the following OS on my PC of following configuration. Hardware: PIII-800MHz/192MB/20GB/Intel 82815 Video OS: Ubuntu 6.06 / Suse 10.1 / Fedora 5 / Debian 3.1 I have installed all these OS, with mostly same configuration (2.6 kernel/ … Continue reading
Installing Linux From Scratch – Part II
Day 3: 1st Aug 2006, evening (Tue): Powered on PC and chroot-ed into LFS filesystem again. glibc compilation, time zone settings, etc. are being done. This time i am more comfortable. But tar command is not working in chroot-ed environment. … Continue reading
System Call tracing in Linux (strace)
strace: When there is a definitive guide to learn Linux system programming, it is heaven to read and practice those examples. Some times we may need to implement some function which is available in the well known tools (or commercial … Continue reading
Installing Linux From Scratch – Part I
My LFS History: you are entitled to skip 
This is my long time wish to install a Linux system from scratch. One year before I had downloaded Linux From Scratch (LFS) – Live CD 6.1. I prepared a hard-copy … Continue reading
