What are some feasible ideas for building a smart-device/console development portfolio? [closed]
It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 12 years ago. I would like to start getting more contracts […]
Side-by-side Configuration on Linux/ELF
One of the best/worst Microsoft software innovations (great for compatibility; terrible for efficiency) has been Windows’ Side by Side Configuration. This allows, among other things, for different components of a program to have multiple versions of the C/C++ runtime libraries loaded into the same process.
Why rpm and deb package formats are not unified into one standard system?
I had this question asked on stackoverflow, but it was closed “as not a real question”.
Work flow when editing files in /var/www. Constantly needing to input “sudo” commands
I installed Apache2 and PHP5 last night on my fresh Linux Mint machine.
What are the advantages of programming to under an OS as opposed to bare metal executive?
Assume you are presented with an embedded system application to program, in C, on a multi-core environment (think a Cavium or Tilera) and need to choose between two environments:
Linux OpenGL programming, should I use GLX or any other?
I’m new to OpenGL and found that there are a lot of libraries to do that in C,
and I also found that glx is most friendly with Linux X Server, I just want to do basic stuff, and I cannot find any tutorials for GLX.
Issues with time slicing
I was trying to see the effect of time slicing, and how it can consume significant amount of time. Actually, I was trying to divide a certain task into a number of threads and see the effect.
Shared FIFO file descriptor
is ok to open fifo with one FD and share it with multiple threads?
or is it better to have multiple fds opened for the same fifo and share these fds with the threads?
BTW, I’ll be doing write and read.
What is the relationship between OpenGL, GLX, DRI, and Mesa3D?
I am starting out doing some low-level 3D programming in Linux. I have a lot of experience using the higher level graphics API OpenInventor.
Is it possible to keep only one Database for both web and desktop applications?
I’m experiencing a trouble with my business model, let me explain better.