Kernels

Coronet project is a library which implements an epoll and coroutine based library that allows for async operations over certain kinds of files. Any file that supports poll(2) and the O_NONBLOCK fcntl(2) flag can be hosted; this includes like sockets and pipes. The coronet library uses the...

Debian Operating System is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a completely free piece of software...

DietLinux is a distribution based on dietlibc. It contains a 2.6.x linux kernel, and will never support older kernels that do not support for devfs and tmpfs. The boot process is optimized for small size, the upcoming 0.2-release should be able to boot from cdrom, floppy or usb-stick on all...


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One-Wire Weather is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated) display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A 1-wire "hub" may be used for...


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ATA over Ethernet driver allows the Linux kernel to use the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) network protocol. Using AoE, a Linux system can use AoE block devices like EtherDrive (R) storage blades. The block devices appear as local device nodes (e.g. /dev/etherd/e0.0). Whats New in This Release:...


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File System development is very difficult and time consuming. Even small changes to existing file systems require deep understanding of kernel internals, making the barrier to entry for new developers high. Moreover, porting file system code from one operating system to another is almost as...


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Submount is a system for automatically mounting and unmounting removable media drives like cdroms and floppy disk drives. It works with the Linux 2.6 kernel series. A backport to the 2.4 kernel series is available now as well. Once installed, it allows removable media drives to be accessed as...


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KeyWatcher is a daemon that monitors events from the new Linux input system and to perform actions based on certain events. In other words, multimedia keys like play, stop, mute, etc. can be made to do what they say... KeyWatcher is similar to LinEAK and xhkeys, but does not require X. The...


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Open Aureal Linux Driver is a fork of Aureals own soundcard drivers for the Vortex 2, Vortex 1 and Vortex Advantage. It is built with the goals of making the drivers more Open Sound System (OSS) compliant, more stable, and supporting later kernels. Installing the Driver 1. Unpack the...


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Kernux project is a fully kernel-mode http-daemon for Linux. Currently Kernux is in its developing stage. Similiar developments in the same area were khttpd by Arjan van de van and Tux web-server by Ingo Molnar. Khttpd was included in the linux testing kernel 2.5 by Linus Torvalds. But it was...


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Pure FTP Server is a fast, production quality, standards-conformant FTP server based on Troll-FTPd. Pure FTP Server has no known vulnerability, it is trivial to set up, and it is especially designed for modern kernels. Features include PAM support, IPv6, chroot()ed home directories, virtual...


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acpi4asus project is a Linux kernel driver that allows owners of Asus laptops to use all the functionalites of their computers such as special keys, special LEDs, brightness control, ... Driver (asus_acpi) This driver provides support for extra features of ACPI-compatible ASUS laptops. It may...


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Laptops which use dynamic IP address assignment via DHCP have the problem that the boot process is much longer when no wire is connected to the Ethernet card. This is because the startup scripts have to wait for the DHCP request to time out. ethwireck can detect if the physical layer of the...


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Cdred is a Linux driver and two programs that enables *any* CD player software (xfreecd,gtcd,etc.) to use audio cdroms inserted in other computer. In other words: you can listen an audio cd in a Linux box that doesnt have that cd inserted. Cdred works in all 2.2.x kernels and support for 2.4 will...


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Netcount is a package for logging and displaying PPP network traffic on Linux machines. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. The display...


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Swinput can fake a mouse and a keyboard by using the Linux Input System. The swinput modules read from a device and fakes hardware event (mouse motion, key presses etc) as commands written on the devices. Swinput presents status etc on the proc filesystem. Swinput project is useful when testing...


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Linux-VServer allows you to create virtual private servers and security contexts which operate like a normal Linux server, but allow many independent servers to be run simultaneously in one box at full speed. All services, such as ssh, mail, Web, and databases, can be started on such a VPS,...


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DeadCD is a minimalistic Linux livecd, based on the Debian distribution. Its goal is to provide small - the maximum size is 100 MB -, fast and feature-rich versatile system. DeadCD is minimalistic Linux live CD based on Debian that provides a small (at most 100MB), fast, feature-rich, and...


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EDelta is a fast XDelta-style binary differ, but optimized for executables which have a very systematic way of changing between versions. EDelta has not been thoroughly evaluated so far, but on one example (two versions of Vim) it produces a 30kB delta where XDelta needs 250kB. My personal use...


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genromfs project can create romfs images. romfs is a space-efficient, small, read-only filesystem originally for Linux and used by some Linux based projects. It is a block-based filesystem, that means it makes use of block (or sector) accessible storage driver (like disks, CDs, ROM drives). It...


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