August 2010
Bazaar: A Powerful, next-generation source control system
Bazaar is used to produce the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which is an enormous software project with thousands of components. If you're using a UNIX or Linux system, chances are that your distribution offers a pre-built Bazaar package. Bazaar is flexible enough to accommodate Subversion - a centralized system and Git - a decentralized system. This article introduces you to Bazaar's many appealing features.
November 2009
AIX tips for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Admins
Are you broadening your skills as a Linux systems administrator into various flavors of UNIX? Get a rundown of the differences and similarities between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX so that you can perform day-to-day activities with ease.
August 2009
Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters
There's a lot more to text manipulation than cut and paste, particularly when you aren't using a GUI. This article introduces you to text manipulation on Linux using filters from the GNU textutils package. By the end of this article, you will be manipulating text like an expert.
Active Memory Sharing on POWER6
Active Memory Sharing (AMS) is an enhancement to IBM's PowerVM virtualization technology available on the POWER6 platform. This article describes how to configured Active Memory Sharing on AIX. It also touches on performance considerations with AMS and gives you a better understand of how AMS interacts with the virtual memory.
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