Posts tagged bsd

XCode meets Mono

Photo of a Mono
And… seems to be a nice meeting. ;)
After a lot of development, the comunity surrounding the project realeases last stable version 1.2.3.1 of Mono.

What about Mac OS X? Here is a dedicated page on the official wiki of Mono. And, in particular, I’m happy to highlight a tutorial/howto about XCode and Mono integration: CSharpPlugin.

I know that Mono is the open-source implementation of .Net (started by Novell), and that I hate M$, but… I can’t hate a framework. It’s like to hate the Plutonium because we make the Atomic_Bomb with it! ;)

Besides:

  1. I have had a little experience with Mono (a Gecko# and GTK# based browser)… and it was very good. In particular, I like delegates very much.
  2. .Net and C# specification are standardized at the ECMA: it’s one of the few times that M$ does things in the right way.

Source, TUAW.

The Unix History

Unix: live free or die
Remember, Unix is a “kind” of Operating System, UNIX is a Registered Trademark: a little bit different :D

Unix History Graph

Source, Ziobudda.

Darwin on L4

Darwin
Operating Systems based on Micro-Kernel seems to return fashionable, and some experimental OS releases demonstrate it: the National ICT of Australia, infact, has released a Darwin porting for L4. This is for being able to study the behaviour of that class of o.s..

This porting include XNU, the hearth of MacOSX.

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GNU/Linux Command reference

CLI
A big one: Linux Shortcuts and Commands.
An italian book that have a dedicated chapter: Linux Facile.

Source: OSSBlog.

Compiling FreeBSD Kernel

FreeBSD logo

A custom kernel boots up the system faster, it takes up lesser memory space and one can install drivers for special hardware not supported by a default kernel…

How to get it wrong? ;)

Here is a interesting guide to compile the Kernel for FreeBSD.