A dozen pages added
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 22 April 2010Just a quick heads-up that a dozen pages in the Linux Sea book have been added. Nothing spectacular, just a few more paragraphs on services/runlevels, a few updates on software management and on boot failure resolutions.
License support in Gentoo
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 16 February 2010It's a bit sad that Gentoo didn't promote this more, but Gentoo users now have support for license-based masking.
What does this mean? Well, previously, Gentoo already supported various masking reasons (like stable versus staging - the x86 versus \~x86 saga, package.mask'ing - for security reasons or critical bugs, ...). Now, a …
Executing, but only when you're home
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 18 January 2010Sometimes you want to execute a particular command, but only when you're at home. Examples would be running fetchmail (or fetchnews) through cron, but you don't want this to run when you're in the train, connected to the Internet through GPRS...
My idea here would be to create a script …
Switching to database architecture
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 11 December 2009It's finally committed: I'm going to dive into the realms of database architecture. It's with some sentiment that I'm leaving the expertise field of Apache, J(2)EE and WebSphere, but seeing the database architecture field makes it up well. I'm starting to get acquainted with Oracle DB as first …
Translations to "Linux Sea"
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 02 December 2009A few people have contacted me if they were allowed to translate the online book I'm writing (Linux Sea). Of course they are, the license allows it. However, I recommend to wait a bit. At this moment, I'm not going to release the docbook sources (I'm not writing it in …
Small updates on Linux Sea
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 19 October 2009A few updates have made it to the Linux Sea book:
- Information regarding ndiswrapper
- Some information about udev and the symlinks that it creates
The PDF version has been updated as well.
Online image gallery
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 05 October 2009If you're not up to the various free image gallery sites, you might want to try out ZenPhoto. Quite powerful, easy to use and well themeable. Requires PHP / MySQL.
Added quota information
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 01 September 2009I've added quota support information to the Linux Sea book as well as information about the eclean command for cleaning distfiles and packages. The part on building a Linux kernel has been moved into its own chapter, the chapter on hardware support now has a bit more information about dealing …
Draft PDF for Linux Sea
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 10 August 2009I've added a draft PDF version of my Linux Sea document. If you don't mind the A4 papersize and the bad typesetting of the text boxes (I still have lots of overflows to correct) it is quite usable.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sat 18 April 2009Having documented a lot in LaTeX (back in the old days at the university), GuideXML (Gentoo's document markup language) and DocBook (Linux Sea) I'm now pointing my arrows at DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
DITA "forces" the technical writer in separating the content of his document in specialized subjects …