I just stumbled across this site:
"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/";.
It's an IBM Linux Documentation Project site. Here's an overview of what's
available:
Clustering
Standardizing Cluster APIs
- A presentation by Alan Roberts. (Jan 2002)
IBM Linux Clusters
- Published by IBM Server Group Marketing Communications. (Nov 2001)
Database
DB2 on Linux HOWTO
- Dan Scott wrote this HOWTO to assist with installation and configuration
of
DB2 on Linux. (Jun 2001)
File Systems / Storage
JFS Root Boot HOWTO
Journaling Filesystems
- Moshe Bar has written an article for Linux Magazine which includes
discussion of JFS. (Aug 2000)
Journal File Systems
- The Linux Gazette has an article by Juan I. Santos Florido which
includes discussion of JFS. (Jul 2000)
Journalizing File Systems for Linux
- Byte features an article which includes discussion of JFS. (May 2000)
JFS Layout
- IBM developerWorks features an article on JFS layout by Steve Best
and Dave Kleikamp of the JFS team. (May 2000)
JFS Overview
- IBM developerWorks features a JFS overview by Steve Best of the JFS
team. (Jan 2000)
Linux Partition HOWTO
- This HOWTO was converted from HTML to DocBook SGML by Dan Scott.
(Sep 2001)
Enterprise Volume Management in Linux
- This was presented at the 5th Annual Linux Showcase in November, 2001.
Emulating Multiple Logical Volume Management Systems within a Single
Volume Management Architecture
- Written by Ben Rafanello, John Stiles, Cuong H. Tran, this is a follow up
to the LVMS whitepaper. The project has been renamed to the Enterprise
Volume Management System. This paper was presented at the Linux Storage
Management Workshop in Miami, FL during October 2000.
Logical Volume Management System (LVMS) whitepaper
- Ben Rafanello has published a whitepaper on a technology called a Logical
Volume Management System (LVMS). An implementation of LVMS exists for
OS/2,
but has never been released in any product. We are considering whether or
not to port some or all of this to Linux (open source, under GPL), and
are
soliciting input from the Linux technical community.
Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux
- Presented at LinuxWorld Expo Tokyo by Steve Best. (May 2000)
Java
Java, threads, and scheduling in Linux
- Ray Bryant and Bill Hartner of the LTC have written an article discussing
the performance of the Linux kernel when the system is running a Java
program using the IBM Developer Kit for Linux, Java Technology Edition,
Version 1.1.8. (Jan 2000)
Faster apps on a better machine
- Duc Vianney (LTC) and James Phelan (IBM Austin Research Center) have
written
an article on tuning Linux and Java performance. (May 2001)
Kernel
Linux for PowerPC Embedded Systems HOWTO
- Boas Betzler wrote this HOWTO as an attempt to tell you what you need to
know
to use Linux on an embedded PowerPC-based system. It is a distillation of
the
collective wisdom from the linuxppc-embedded mailing list. (Aug 2001)
Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals
- Mingming Cao and Russell Weight have contributed Chapter 5 on shared
memory to
this document maintained by Tigran Aivazian. (Aug 2001)
Enhancing Linux Scheduler Scalability
- Mike Kravetz presented this paper at the 2001 Ottawa Linux Symposium.
(Jul 2001)
Lockmeter: Highly Informative Instrumentation for Spin Locks in the Linux
Kernel
- Ray Bryant (IBM) and John Hawkes (SGI) presented this paper at the 4th
Annual
Linux Showcase. (Oct 2000)
SMP Scalability Comparisons of Linux® 2.2.14 and 2.3.99
- Ray Bryant (IBM), Bill Hartner (IBM), Qi He (Georgia Institute of
Technology),
and Ganesh Venkitachalam (VMWare, Inc.) presented this paper at the 4th
Annual
Linux Showcase and Conference. (Oct 2000)
Networking
Token-Ring mini-HOWTO
- This HOWTO was updated and is now maintained by Tom Gall. (Mar 2000)
Printing
IBM OMNI Driver FrameWork
- Presented by Mark Hamzy presented at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco.
(Aug 2001)
Quality Assurance
How to run the LTP test suite HOWTO
- Casey Abell and Robbie Williamson wrote this HOWTO to assist people
interested in
running the LTP test suite. (Dec 2001)
RAS
Dynamic Probes for Linux - A Tracing Mechanism for both User and Kernel
Space
- Richard Moore presented this paper at the 2001 UKUUG Linux Developers
Conference
2001 in July 2001.
A Universal Dynamic Trace for Linux and other Operating Systems
- Richard Moore presented this paper at the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical
Conference
in June 2001.
Dynamic Probes and Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface for Linux
- Richard Moore presented this paper at the 4th Annual Linux Showcase in
October 2000.
Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface - A High Speed Call-back Mechanism for
the Linux Kernel
- This paper was presented at the 2001 UKUUG Linux Developers Conference
2001 in
July 2001.
Security / Encryption
PKCS #11 openCryptoki for Linux
- Steven Bade and Kristin Thomas of the LTC have written an article
discussing the
openCryptoki project which allows Linux to interface with devices that
contain
cryptographic data and perform cryptographic functions. (Nov 2001)
Securing Linux Servers for Service Providers
- Written by Bill Hilf, Sr. Consulting I/T Architect. (Dec 2001)
Linux Security for the Enterprise: Executive Summary
- Written by Trent Jaeger, David Safford, and Hubertus Franke of the IBM
T.J.
Watson Research Center. (Jan 2002)
Security Requirements for the Deployment of the Linux Kernel in Enterprise
Systems
- Written by Trent Jaeger, David Safford, and Hubertus Franke of the IBM
T.J.
Watson Research Center.
Linux Security State of the Union
- Written by Robb Romans and Emily Ratliff of the IBM LTC. (May 2001)
Addressing Security Issues in Linux
- Written by Mark Chapman of the IBM Server Group. (Dec 2000)
Software Development
Linux for S/390 and zSeries porting hints and tips
- An IBM technical team responsible for porting applications to Linux/390
wrote an
article to aid developers in porting code. (Nov 2001)
Building Perl projects with MakeMaker
- Sean Dague wrote an article on Perl development. (Nov 2001)
