Re: Threading in linux

2007-04-24 Thread John Aspinall
whenever a thread ran on the alt-stack. John Aspinall - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: Why should we teach students Linux??

2007-03-05 Thread John Aspinall
Jarmo forwarded: knows a link/document about why we should educate our students in the Linux OS, please send it. Or article about the usage of Linux in company's. This is a completely meaningless question until we know what kind of students. Elementary computer science? Operating system de

Re: parsing a string

2004-08-09 Thread John Aspinall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to bash and am trying to write a script that puts 3 substrings in 3 variables. I have a string with password,firstname,lastname. and I need it to be in 3 variables. I'm just an apprentice here, but I think "cut" is a good choice of tool. $ echo 'password,firstname,

modules: aliases and configuration

2003-11-08 Thread John Aspinall
vance, for the info. If there's a good reference for this and other stuff, I'm sure many members of the list would like to hear about it. John Aspinall - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

correlating module names and config options

2003-10-15 Thread John Aspinall
I'm building my first kernels from sources, and I'm comparing the result with the kernel as shipped with typical major distro. The "distro-kernel" is loaded with every possible option built as a module. (Not at all surprising, since they need to install on all kinds of hardware.) But this br

Re: Xwrapper

2001-04-05 Thread John Aspinall
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, John Aspinall wrote: > > > I'd like to boot my machine directly into runlevel 5, with the X server > > running in 16 bits-per-pixel (bpp) mode. > ... > > So I edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to read: > > ":0 local /usr/bin/X11/X -bpp