Black God

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/ GNOME interface, services...). I have not done any tweak. Here is my observation with ranking. This ranking is based on performance on my PC only. Rank 4. Suse 10.1: Installation - slow, Eye candy desktop, Monitor not recognized properly. After insta...

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. I think I have done some mistake. But no problem, I extracted the bzipped tar files from host (Slackware 10.1) environment and compiled from chroot-ed environment. :-) :-) happy to manage this kind of issues. Day 4: 05th Aug 2006 (Sat): The whole day I spe...

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 tools), but we may not know which system call to use to accomplish some of the tasks. I too faced such problems. Then I found that strace is handy command for this purpose. This is very much useful for debugging purpose. How to use it? strace -o <trace file n...

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 of installation manual. With a lot of enthusiasm I sat in front of my computer. I booted the system with this live-cd and start installing by reading the manual. After 2 hours, I found that LFS installation is not like most other distros, to start installation and finish in a few minutes or ...