a Linux-like environment for Windows. A way to run native linux apps on Windows and make way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality after a rebuild.
explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work.
(because old games never die), uses SDL to emulate a 386, an S3/Trio video even Tandy, a Sound Blaster Pro, the PC speaker, Tandy 3-sound, CMS/GameBlaster, Disney Sound Source, and MIDI under DOS
a simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web. Install any Windows, Linux, BSD or Solaris, and test live-CDs in a safe environment.
designed to be used by Unix distribution developers, package developers, and system implementors. Intended to be a reference, not a tutorial on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy.
an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. (IBM, HP, INTEL+)
a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB...
on these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.
a fast, scalable and memory-efficient allocator for multiprocessors. Hoard solves the heap contention problem caused when multiple threads call dynamic memory allocation functions like malloc() and free() (or new and delete).
Need a boot disk for your Windows machine? There are essentially seven steps to create a bootable DVD or bootable UFD (USB Flash Drive), all of which are command line based, this article tries to simplify all the information needed
aims to implement functions (not present on Windows 98 / ME) to kernel32.dll and other system libraries so that recent Windows XP applications and games work on Windows 98 / ME. (requires Windows 98 FE or Windows 98 SE or Windows ME)
index of information and documentation of interest to those who now use or are considering using the Linux operating system on a notebook or laptop computer.
You'll find plain-English information here about using Linux on a personal computer or on a shell account provided by your ISP. After a brief history and overview of Linux, you'll find a concise and occasionally light-hearted treatment of these topics.
Learn how you can use Virtual Server 2005 R2, now available as a free download, to increase hardware utilization and enable faster deployments of new servers.
implements Windows kernel API and NDIS API within Linux kernel. A Windows driver for wireless network card is then linked to this implementation so that the driver runs natively, as though it is in Windows, without binary emulation.
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Version 1.0. Millions of development hours worth of code and over 1,600 patents are being contributed to the open source community.
Parallel I/O continues to be a topic of active development. Recent years have seen the creation of many new options. Even with these new choices, certain factors remain constant. Parallel applications need a fast I/O subsystem.
a Linux distribution that is about 100 megabytes, yet it includes a complete set of graphical applications, combined with extensive utility applications. Puppy was created from scratch, file-by-file, optimized for size at every step. Another feature of Puppy Linux is that it can work totally without a hard drive, even allowing you to save data and install extra packages by saving back to the CD or DVD.
CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, Reiser4, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery.
lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk.
a collection of utilities and technical information related to Windows internals by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006.
The obvious question is: should you be considering a move to 64-bit Windows? In this article, we will explore the answer to this question. We will discuss the advantages of 64-bit Windows over 32-bit, talk about a few concepts, and get some tips...
The UWIN package allows UNIX applications to be built and run on Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 with few, if any, changes necessary. UWIN source and binaries are available under the open source Common Public License 1.0.
powerful x86 virtualization (similar to VMWare) runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
This page list codes for accented letters and other characters. In order to use these codes, your computer should have a separate numeric keypad on the right.
If your windows installation has issues, or for some other unmentionable reason is unable to get updates from the windows server, this is what you need to do.