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On Solaris on Sun hardware L1-A will drop you into Sun openboot. From there you can change firmware options, the boot device and reboot the box.
What is the equivalent, if there is one, for the various linux distros?
Started by Jeff Leonard on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Press 'ESC' in Grub on Linux, then oress 'e' to edit and add the word 'single' to the linux line.
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I would like to know how can i compile a number of header files by just one command using autotools in arch linux
Started by jinal on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If you just have some....
For general automake help, I would suggest the Automake manual
Generally you don't compile header files ( .h ), but instead the .c files .
They do not (or should not) define an implementation.
Header files are not for compilation.
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On our Linux servers, we currently use HPs qla2xxx drivers, because it has multipathing (active/passive) built in.
The are, however, various other options, like Red Hats device-mapper-multipath with the stock qla2xxx drivers (multibus and failover) and...
Started by wzzrd on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Some that linux is....
It worked well, but to avoid kernel taint required specific Linux kernel, I typically stick with whatever comes with the Linux kernel, since it also works with dm-multipath.
An AIX driver ported to Linux.
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Why do Linux distros have different package managers?
I find this very strange because other software such as text editors, desktop environments and graphics software (Inkscape, Blender, GIMP) are shared among distributions. Why not have a common setup...
Started by Agnel Kurian on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The nice thing about Linux is choice and multiple package management.
Management system to another.
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What kind of SCTP support is there on various Windows versions?
Started by Robert S. Barnes on
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Version 7 and above HP-UX, 11i v2 and above Operating systems using Linux kernel 2.4 and newer QNX Neutrino Realtime OS, 6.3.0 and above Sun Solaris 10 and above Various third-party implementations of SCTP.
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I want to compare and contrast the various source control systems out there. Any good references?
Started by Micah on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Version control systems for Linux: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/vcs.html
Here's a comparison.
A document which illustrates various work flows that compare and contrast working with hg, bzr, git and svn.
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I'm looking for ways to generate pdfs on-the-fly preferably using a command line tool as this will be done from a web-based system.
My requirements include must work on Windows and Linux, should be able to convert Microsoft Word, Excel and HTML into PDF...
Started by Brian Fenton on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It has an API interface....
Check the documentation for Bullzip PDF for examples on how it can be automated .
Check this
PDF Creator
Have a look at biopdf , and a PDF printer that uses it called Bullzip PDF .
I think this has a command line utility, but not sure .
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Drobo did it somehow - i.e. they can mix and match multiple sizes of discs, as long as 2 biggest discs have the same size. Is there any solution for this type of storage, free, for Linux?
Started by depesz on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
For me, it's 2.
Linux standard software raid can handle that.
The LVM HOWTO should be helpful.
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I've never used the checksum when downloading various executables or zip files from the Internet. I know it is used to check for consistency and add a bit of security. But is it necessary for when you download from a respectable project like Apache or...
Started by daub815 on
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When downloading files where integrity is critical (an iso of a linux distribution for example) i tend.
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This isn't a "Which IDE should I use?" question and I'm not interested in text editors no matter how awesome they may be (and I don't consider either vim or emacs to be an IDE so... unless you have a couple of days to explain precisely and in full gory...
Started by gaoshan88 on
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And this means Windows....
I develop on Linux, for deployment to LAMP version 3.2.
There are mac and linux versions, but these seem to be the windows version running on a VM of some kind open source software for the freedom as much as the price.
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